Russian Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Rogozin estimated Ukraine’s losses from terminating contracts
in the space and military spheres with Russia are 12 times higher than the
International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) projections.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Monday, the IMF said in a report that the Ukrainian Space Agency potentially lost about 80 percent of its revenue in 2014 after contracts cancellation, or some $180 million at the exchange rates at the time.
"It’s cowardly
to understate figures of losses. In reality, it is 12 times
more," Rogozin wrote on his official Facebook page on Monday.
The Russian deputy prime minister explained that
Ukraine’s gas turbine construction complex Zorya-Mashproekt alone lost $750
million for terminating its contract with Moscow.
The relationship between Kiev and Moscow soured
in 2014 following Crimea's reunification with Russia and
beginning of a military conflict in Ukraine's eastern regions
of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Source: Sputnik News 09-02-2016
