Russia releases photo of cosmonauts holding Luhansk flag on ISS
by Martin Belam from on (#611WV)
Trio were praised in February for wearing yellow uniforms in apparent show of support for Ukraine
Russia's space agency has published photos appearing to show cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) holding the flags of the self-proclaimed republics in Luhansk and Donetsk.
In a message posted to the official Roscosmos Telegram channel, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov appear to be holding the flags of the two occupied territories, whose occupiers are recognised as legitimate authorities only by Russia and Syria among UN member states.
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