Volodymyr Usov used to have great hopes for Ukraine, but now he has mostly concerns.
, which only six years ago opened a major research and development center in Dnipro, has withdrawn from the country, said Usov. With these partnerships gone, Ukraine's army of engineers and space experts is not only out of work, but also, once again, isolated from the world, a bitter reminder of the decades spent behind the Iron Curtain.
But despite Ukraine's proven track record in space technology development, the door to the West hasn't been particularly open for the former Soviet republic. Unlike its western neighbors Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, which before 1989 were part of the Eastern Bloc but not the Soviet Union, Ukraine is nowhere near joining either the European Union or the European Space Agency .
"We still have our R&D team in Ukraine, in Kyiv, and we have our team here in Torino, in Italy," Usov explained."The company is Italian and Ukrainian, with engineers and space professionals on both sides."
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