Moscow, Feb. 2 - Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is set to replace Zenit launch vehicles built by the Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenmash plant in Ukraine with brand new Angara rockets, Izvestia wrote on Monday.

"Our industry has just developed a new rocket capable of performing any mission, so we think it will be pointless to buy rockets from Ukraine," Roscosmos spokesman Igor Burenkov told the newspaper.