Russia’s Superjet airliner completed its first test flight using the domestically produced PD-8 engine, state defense and industrial conglomerate Rostec announced Monday.

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 — recently rebranded as the SJ-100 — is central to Russia’s efforts to develop a domestic commercial aircraft industry after Western sanctions hobbled its aviation sector.

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Sanctions don’t work, let me explain why! They did cause an initial pain, and that might have been interpreted as success but the intention of sanctions is to influence behavior. And they rarely achieve this goal. If the country is able to overcome sanctions this is a failure. It means that your own companies have definitely lost a market. Unless you are at war, I do not understand what the point of sanctions even is. Sanctions used to be called embargoes and blockades in the past, and they were a method of war. In fact, sanctions are war just not fought with lethal weapons. And the Ukraine war is a proxy war of the West against Russia using the Ukrainians as cannon fodder and supplying them with weapons, money, and material help, while imposing a blockade on Russia.