Russia says it will no longer sell Russian-made rocket
engines to the United States.
Head of the country’s space agency, Roscosmos, Dmitry
Rogozin made this known on state television on Thursday, bringing to an end a
decades-long relationship between the two countries in the rocket market.
“Today we have made a decision to halt the deliveries of
rocket engines produced by NPO Energomash to the United States,” Rogozin said,
according to the Russian news site TASS.
“Let me remind you that these deliveries had been quite
intensive somewhere since the mid-1990s.”
TASS reported that the ban will apply to RD-180 engines that
power US-based United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V rockets.
However, ULA’s CEO Tory Bruno said on. Twitter that ULA has
already taken delivery of the RD-180s it needs in the near term.
Russia and the Ukraine Republic began fighting last week
Thursday after President Vladimir Putin ordered his army to invade their
neighbours over some unresolved political issues.
The United States of America and other western countries
have since hit Russia with a series of sanctions while others have promised to
supply Ukraine with lethal weapons
Following the invasion, Ukrainian sources said that over
2,000 civilians have been killed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the other hand,
said that his country has killed over 9,000 Russian troops already.
The Russian defence ministry has since dismissed this,
stating that only 498 troops have died.
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