Experts of Roscosmos mentioned the price of the refusal of Ukrainian components

The elimination of the consequences of a break with the Ukrainian defence industry would have cost Russia about $ 1 billion through 2018, the media says referring to the letter of the head of Department of automated space complexes and systems of Roskosmos Michael Khailov.
Khailov wrote about it the first Deputy head of Roscosmos Alexander Ivanov, reports " Kommersant ". About 1 billion dollars is necessary in order to completely switch to domestic materials, raw materials and components and to transfer the production of all components from Ukraine to the Russian Federation. Adding that, as long as the money is not allocated, the Federal space Agency wants to solve the issue through the reallocation of funds from their not more priority projects. Remember, on July 21, the Vice-Premier of the Russian government Dmitry Rogozin said that " the Ukrainian defence industry is the end ". on June 17, the new head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has prohibited any military-technical cooperation with Russia. While Rogozin said that the capital of Russia Already has a plan of import substitution of military products of Ukraine. He has supplemented his words by the fact that Russian industry for the last 2 and a half years will be able to completely get rid produced in Ukraine products of the defense complex. At the same time experts said because of this that, breaking the military-technical contacts with Russia, Ukraine " shooting yourself in the foot " and destroys the main sector of industry. As said by the Deputy Minister of defense Yuri Borisov, the Russian defense Ministry hopes for a 95% decline from dependence on deliveries of components from Ukraine. Already a schedule for import substitution, " analyzed the presence of stocks of components, preparing for the production of all parts, defined responsible ".


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