Luna-25 was lost because the engine didn’t receive a command to shut down, Roscosmos chief says Russia’s Luna-25 automatic interplanetary station collided with the Moon last month due to the failure of speed-measuring devices on the probe, Yury Borisov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, has said.

The economy minister speaks out against withdrawing from the organization, saying the benefits of being in the WTO outweigh the drawbacks Russia needs to keep its place in the World Trade Organization despite Ukraine-related Western sanctions, Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said in response to a bill demanding Moscow quit the WTO.

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