MOSCOW — Russia is prone to cancel this 12 months’s Moscow air show, which for many years has been a serious venue for showing off recent military aircraft and negotiating aerospace contracts, a top official of its organizing agency said Friday.
Viktor Kladov, director for international cooperation on the state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec, was quoted by the state news agency Tass as saying that the show “perhaps” won’t happen this 12 months. It had been scheduled for the tip of July.
Kladov didn’t state a reason for laying aside the event, but Russian news media earlier suggested it was resulting from Western sanctions on Russia connected to the conflict in Ukraine that will shrink international participation and have affected parts supplies to manufacturers.
Those reports also cited unnamed sources as saying there are security worries within the wake of drone attacks that hit the Kremlin and the outskirts of Moscow in May,
International attendance at Russia’s annual investment showcase, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, was notably lower than it had been prior to Russia’s sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022.