It's not as if the Germans just sold the Russians some instruments they then decided to switch off after the fact: This was an ongoing joint mission where the

It's not as if the Germans just sold the Russians some instruments they then decided to switch off after the fact: This was an ongoing joint mission where the Max Planck institute was responsible for parts of the ground support - see https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2315138 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2315138 for some of the details.