Ukraine has cancelled tax and customs preferences for Russia under Sea Launch and Land Launch projects / Photo from Roscosmos
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has extended an agreement with Russia on outer space exploration until January 1, 2018, having simultaneously cancelled tax and customs preferences for some Russian-made space commodities supplied to Ukrainian enterprises.
A respective decision was stipulated in a government resolution dated August 19, 2015.
In particular, some of the commodities of Russian origin supplied to the following Ukrainian enterprises will no longer enjoy tax and customs benefits: the world's leader in rocketry Dnipropetrovsk-based Yuzhmash (Pivdenmash), Kyiv-based Ukroboronservice, Kharkiv-based state-run Communard Research and Production Amalgamation, Kharkiv-based Khartron, and others.
The government's limitations concern projects for the manufacture of such launch vehicles as Zenit-M, Zenit-3SL, Cyclone, Zenit-2S (Sea Launch), and Senit-2SB (Land Launch).
As UNIAN reported earlier, the Cabinet in spring 2015 severed the 1993 intergovernmental agreement with Russia on military-technical cooperation.