Russian company NPO Energomash signed a new contract to supply four RD-181 rocket engines to the American aerospace company Orbital ATK for its Antares rockets until 2021, reported the newspaper Kommersant on Tuesday, September 4.

The new contract was signed despite efforts of some Russian lawmakers to stop sales of rocket engines to the USA as a response to a new series of American sanctions. The USA is the Russian enterprise’s only market for such rocket engines, the newspaper notes. …

The Ukrainian embassy to Germany has initiated criminal proceedings against several German MPs who have visited annexed Crimea illegally, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk told Evropeyska Pravda news outlet in an interview.

According to him, Ukrainian legislation prescribes a prison sentence of up to eight years for illegal visitation of the annexed territories.

“The fact that you are MPs does not free you from responsibility. We must use conviction in absentia and other …

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin believes that Russia, which annexed the Crimean peninsula, is responsible for the acidic emissions in Armyansk.

“First the Russian occupants brought human grief to Crimea and the Donbas, and now ecological catastrophes, which are destroying our land,” the minister wrote on Twitter.

Armyansk residents continue to complain about health deterioration, an acrid smell in the air, and throat irritation, especially in the evening, following the emissions …