Roscosmos announced the separation of the first and second batches of OneWeb satellites from Fregat

This is stated in the state corporation's Twitter account.

"We have just received confirmation of the separation of the first and second batches of OneWeb satellites from the Fregat upper stage at 22:18 and 22:38 Moscow time," the message says.

Earlier it became known that the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with 34 OneWeb communication satellites was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome.