>Russia has built new types of aircraft, new rocket
This would be a valid argument six months ago. Now we know those "new types of aircraft" were vaporware, and missiles work really fine only if you can claim that a random barn is a valid military target. Some of the things that did materialize - like the new military telecom system - turned out to be rebranded Chinese products.
>new nuclear icebreakers
Which were co-developed with Ukraine. Btw, do you know Russia's only aircraft carrier was literally stolen from Ukraine?
>its own internet search engine
This one is actually true, but on the other hand Ukraine had wider success with Whatsapp.
WhatsApp was created by two American programmers, one of whom is Jewish and was born in the Ukraine. If you insists that WhatsApp is Ukrainian software, please count Google as Russian, because Sergei Brin is of Russian origin.
Korolev was born in the Ukrainian SSR and let me quote wiki [0]:
"His father, Pavel Yakovlevich Korolev, was born in Mogilev to a Russian soldier and a Belarusian mother. His mother, Maria Nikolaevna Koroleva (Moskalenko/Bulanina), was a daughter of a wealthy merchant from the city of Nezhin (now Nizhyn, Ukraine), with Ukrainian, Greek and Polish heritage."
There is something very indecent in talking about nationality or ethnicity of great people as if it really matters. Please stop it, okay?
The BBC journalists uttered neither 'Russian' nor 'Soviet', and arguing that a rocket made in Russia 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union cannot be called 'Russian rocket' is just silly.
This would be a valid argument six months ago. Now we know those "new types of aircraft" were vaporware, and missiles work really fine only if you can claim that a random barn is a valid military target. Some of the things that did materialize - like the new military telecom system - turned out to be rebranded Chinese products.
>new nuclear icebreakers
Which were co-developed with Ukraine. Btw, do you know Russia's only aircraft carrier was literally stolen from Ukraine?
>its own internet search engine
This one is actually true, but on the other hand Ukraine had wider success with Whatsapp.