Ukraine keeps maintaining Russian ICBMs Satan despite ban on military ties

Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk-based missile-developing design bureau Yuzhnoye does not stop maintenance of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) RS-20 Satan which are in service of the Russian Strategic Missile Troops, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday with the reference to a representative of the design bureau specialists.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered to halt military cooperation with Russia. Meanwhile, the design bureau noted that the ban on military cooperation with Russia is possible only in case of a presidential decree to this effect that has not been issued yet.

“Our specialists went to Russia and keep visiting the country on different issues, primarily space rocket projects. If the president takes a decision and we are officially informed about it, then c-operation will be halted,” the source in Yuzhnoye design bureau said.

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