This is what Yuri Borisov, Russia’s former deputy prime minister who took over as head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos on July 15, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
— Of course we will fulfill our commitments to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made, says Borisov in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I think we started working on the Russian space station at that time,” he says.
At the end of April, the head of Roscosmos at the time, Dmitry Rogozin, said that Russia will leave the station, but without further details about the timetable. At the time, the decision was announced as a result of the sanctions directed at Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine.