Russia’s Roscosmos threatens to halt rocket supplies to French company over frozen assets

‘Russia reportedly threatened to suspend supplies of Soyuz-ST rockets to French launch service provider Arianespace, citing the freeze of payments for the vehicles imposed by a French court over a lawsuit against Russia by shareholders of the Yukos oil company.
“We haven’t received any money owed from Arianespace for our work. No money, no product. We can’t work for free,” the Russian Roscosmos told AFP. “Then we won’t deliver anything.”
Roscosmos told the agency the fact that French authorities support the freezing of Roscosmos assets linked to the Yukos case “doesn’t help the case.”’
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