Die ukrainischen Angriffe zwingen Putin, Raketenfabriken weiter nach Osten zu verlegen

The original paywalled article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/02/ukraine-strikes-force-putin-to-move-missile-factories-east/

> Facilities belonging to Roscosmos, Russia’s state agency for space flights and aerospace research, will be relocated from Moscow and the surrounding region to far-flung corners of the country, which will be harder for Kyiv’s long-range drones and missiles to infiltrate.

> The production facilities of the sanctioned Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre will also be moved, to Omsk in southwestern Siberia, while facilities for rocket engine production based in Khimki, in the Moscow region, will be moved to Perm, close to the Ural Mountains.

> January, Roscosmos was forced to announce that it would transfer the Angara family of launch vehicles it was developing at the Khrunichev centre in Moscow to its branch in Omsk.

Of course, according to them, this has nothing to do with the factories being blown up:

> Dmitry Bakanov, the head of Roscosmos, claimed that the agency had made the decision to relocate in order to optimise production and cut costs.

> “The cost of industrial serial production in Khimki is becoming prohibitive due to high overhead costs,” he said on Wednesday.