MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. Russia and India are discussing cooperation in the space sector, including manned spaceflights, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said at a meeting of the two countries’ intergovernmental commission on cooperation.

"Our countries continue their dialogue in the space sector. There is broad scope for cooperation here, including manned spaceflights, rocket engine development, and satellite navigation," he said.

Manturov added that Russia and India are discussing potential cooperation in civil aircraft manufacturing. There is strong interest in Russian civilian aircraft in India, he said.

Nearly 270 Ukrainian drones taken down over Russian regions during day

Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Crimea, the Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Smolensk, Tula, Moscow, and Krasnodar Regions, and the Black Sea, he Russian defense ministry said

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