“Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov at the end of December found the last possible air leak in the intermediate chamber of the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the ISS,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Strugovets added that they plan to deliver the tools for elimination on the nearest Progress cargo ship.

“The concern of our partners is unfounded and surprising,” he summed up.

Earlier, the head of Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that flights of spacecraft would soon begin according to a single-orbit scheme, which would allow reaching the ISS in one and a half to two hours.