Head of Russian space agency appears to threaten to drop ISS on India or China
CTV
The head of Russia's space agency appears to have threatened to drop the International Space Station on India or China because of Western sanctions.
Dmitry Rogozin, the director general of Roscosmos, tweeted that countries should "prevent your sanctions from falling on your head, and not only in a figurative sense," in a series of posts Thursday. He was responding to news that U.S. sanctions, imposed in retaliation for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, could affect the Russian space program.
"Do you want to destroy our co-operation on the ISS?" Rogozin, who is also Russia's former ambassador to NATO, wrote in a tweet.
He also noted the work that Russian cosmonauts do to navigate the space station and avoid hitting space junk.
"If you block co-operation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the United States or Europe?" he wrote. "There is also the option of dropping a 500-ton structure to India and China. Do you want to threaten them with such a prospect?"
