“Still, some kind of space privatization in one form or another, and now I find it difficult to say whether this can be regarded as an attempt to privatize space, such attempts would be unacceptable,” said Peskov.

According to him, these actions require a legal assessment.

Earlier, according to CNBC, Trump signed a decree securing the right of Americans to extract space resources.

The deputy director general of Roscosmos for international cooperation, Sergey Savelyev, called the plan of the US president aggressive.