Russia will pull out of the International Space Station, ending decades of cooperation with the US and other spacefaring nations.
The announcement was made by the agency's head after a discussion with the president.
The head of Russia's Roscosmos agency, Yuri Borisov, said that Russia would fulfill its commitments but wouldn't do anything more.
As relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in the wake of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the agency might have pulled out of the International Space Station.
Borisov said the decision was final.
Borisov said that Russia wants to build its own space station by the year 2024.
The International Space Station and the China's space station are currently in space.
A senior NASA official told Joey Roulette that there was no official announcement of the withdrawal from NASA by the Russian space agency.
NASA has previously said it could keep the International Space Station going until 2030.
The former prime minister of Russia, Borisov, took the helm of the state corporation on July 15.
Tensions have been rising between NASA and the Russian government over the war in Ukraine.
The decision to leave the International Space Station could change if Western sanctions are lifted, as predicted by a former director-general of the Russian space agency.
NASA issued a rare statement condemning the use of the International Space Station for political purposes to support the war against Ukrainians.
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