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Sadly, most of the skilled workers needed for this project were pressed into military service, and got blown up in Ukraine.
Or sent to prison for collaborating, like that scientist who worked on commercial hypersonic airplanes.
Or just packed their shit and ran away as far as they could. A lot of great IT professionals I know started leaving Russia after 2014. After 2022 literally everyone I know left Russia. Putin has fucked Russia real hard...