It's a good thing COMAC is a new contender for commerical aerospace- and Russia certainly has the means, even if it'll have to rebuild and reinvigorate it a fair bit, to produce its own passenger aircraft as well.

All you have here is WaPo drivel and speculation, and if you believe them about anything- much less anything regarding Russia, Palestine, China, etc... you're a lost cause. This is basically on the same level as "Russians will have to resort to salvaging chips from their washing machines" nonsense- do you think that Russia, an industrialized nation whose legacy forms one half of the technological development of the cold war, is incapable of basic maintenance and repairs for their aircraft without western Aryan "benevolence?"

Anyways, cheers to the UK no longer making steel. In a perfect world, perfidious Albion would never create steel again, not for a thousand years; considering what they have always done with any industrial capacity that came about on their damnable island, it is only fitting.