Russia blames Ukraine for Soyuz rocket booster failure

"The Soyuz rocket, which flight was aborted minutes after it took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, was equipped with a Ukrainian-made control system, the media found out. Sources also report that sabotage is not ruled out," Russian NTV channel tweeted on Monday, Censor.NET reports.

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On Oct. 12, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin survived an emergency landing following a booster failure on the Soyuz rocket carrying them to the International Space Station.