NASA issued a statement rebuking cosmonauts' display of a pro-Russian separatist flag on the International Space Station this week, a rare move for the agency that espouses the outpost as a place for international cooperation.
on the International Space Station this week, a rare move for the agency that espouses the outpost as a place for international cooperation.showing ISS cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev, and Denis Matveev holding flags used by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. The post congratulated the capture of what separatists call the Luhansk People's Republic, located in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
The cosmonauts also held another flag, this time showing support for another Donbas region: the Donetsk People's Republic. Russia has been fighting Ukrainian forces to seize the area.Putin dares West to defeat Russia on battlefield, US-China relations complicated by Russia support"Citizens of the allied Donetsk People's Republic, wait!" Roscosmos said, insinuating that Russian victory there is just around the corner.
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev, and Denis Matveev hold the flag of the Donetsk People's Republic, a breakaway state formed by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, on the International Space Station. It is one of two such states, the second being the Luhansk People's Republic.
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