Rogozin said that the manufacturer of the rocket "Soyuz" sanctions "on the drum"

The staff of the rocket and space center "Progress" "on the drum" the sanctions of Western countries. This was announced by the CEO of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin in his TELEGRAM channel.

“The Progress team asked me to tell the Americans and their European servants that they don’t care about their sanctions.” Something like that,” wrote Rogozin.

RCC Progress (part of the state corporation Roscosmos) is the leading Russian enterprise of the rocket and space industry for the development, production and operation of Soyuz-2 launch vehicles and Earth remote sensing systems. At the end of 2018, the proceeds of RCC Progress amounted to 28.465 billion rubles, follows from the SPARK database. The enterprise is also creating a promising two-stage Soyuz-5 medium-class launch vehicle, which will be able to put up to 17 tons of payload into orbit. The total budget of the project is 1.6 billion rubles. Of these, 750 million rubles. as a loan issued by the Industrial Development Fund.

Rogozin recalled that the company was included in the EU and US sanctions lists . At the same time, according to him, American astronauts continue to trust their lives to Soyuz rockets. “Well, how to understand these Westerners? it seems that they are not idiots, but they behave like idiots and enemies, ”he said.