Boeing, Airbus planes will “never be delivered” to Russia again

Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russia’s state conglomerate Rostec, has said that he believes Western aircraft manufacturers will “never” deliver planes to Russia again.

Chemezov’s remarks follow the recently announced ambitious plans to vastly ramp up production of domestic aircraft in the wake of Western sanctions imposed due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In June 2022, Russia’s Minister of Trade and Industry Denis Manturov revealed plans for more than 1000 new passenger aircraft to be manufactured in Russia, all of which will be produced by the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC). UAC is a subsidiary of Rostec created by consolidating major Russian aircraft manufacturers, including Sukhoi, Ilyushin and Tupolev.