KIEV, Aug. 8 – The failure to put the Express MD2 and Telkom 3 communications satellites into their correct orbits from Baikonur using a Russian Proton-M launch vehicle could indirectly affect the launch of Ukraine's Lybid communications satellite, which is scheduled for 2013, Ukraine's state-owned enterprise Ukrkosmos reported.

"Unfortunately, yesterday's [August 6] failure of the Proton carrying two communications satellites could have an impact on the launch of our Lybid satellite, because the Ukrainian spacecraft is being produced on the same platform as Telkom 3 - Express 1000 HT of Russia's Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems," Ukrkosmos Head Serhiy Kapshtyk told Interfax-Ukraine on August 7.

In his opinion, this impact will be indirect, rather than direct.