Cosmonauts praised in February for wearing yellow uniforms in apparent show of support for Ukraine
The Russian cosmonauts who were lauded at the outset of the war on Ukraine in February for appearing to show their support for their invaded neighbours with yellow and blue spacesuits have been pictured on the International Space Station (ISS) holding the flags of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, alongside a message celebrating what the Russian space agency Roscosmos termed the “liberation” of Luhansk.
In a message posted to the official Roscosmos Telegram channel, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov are shown holding each of the flags of the two occupied territories, which are recognised as legitimate authorities only by Russia and Syria among UN member states.
Roscosmos and our cosmonauts, who are working today at the International Space Station, join the congratulations of the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, on the ‘new Day of the Great Victory.’
This is a long-awaited day that residents of the occupied areas of the Luhansk region have been waiting for eight years. We are confident that 3 July 2022 will forever go down in the history of the Republic. Citizens of the allied Donetsk People’s Republic, wait!
