The European Space Agency (ESA) has notified the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos that it will not go ahead with a teleconference scheduled for Monday to discuss sanctions and further cooperation, an informed source told Interfax on Sunday.

"The European Space Agency has informed Roscosmos that it will not hold a teleconference on Monday between ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin, which was earlier initiated by the European side," the source said.

Plans to hold such talks were announced by Rogozin the day before. They were expected to address the issue of sanctions and further cooperation.