Boeing helped fuel the economy of Russia. Could it come back?

To hear President Vladimir V. Putin saying, the Russian economy prospered despite Western sanctions, becoming more self -sufficient and redirect to the new markets.

But there is a company that Russian officials do not hide missing: Boeing.

Aviation giant planes play an essential role in the Russian economy, connecting its distant cities. Until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Boeing sold and maintained planes in Russia and explained a large design center. He also bought a large part of his titanium, a key material for modern jets, from Russia.

While President Trump is continuing a striking connection with Moscow, the company has become an early test to know if American companies that fled Russia at the start of the war will return.

Boeing did not say anything in public to know if he plans to go back, and he refused to comment on this article. But the obstacles are considerable.

Trump has so far been kept in place of American sanctions against Russian aviation, which gives him a lever effect with Mr. Putin when he continues negotiations to end the war. And there is a widespread skepticism in the American aviation circles on the commercial feeling of Boeing back in Russia, a reflection of the enormous damage that three years of war have caused to the position of the country in the world of American companies.

“If we give the choice between returning to Russia and drinking Bleach,” said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace consultant, “I’m sure this glass of bleach looks very well.”