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Three Russian cosmonauts have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) this morning wearing the colors of the Ukrainian flag in what could be a challenge to its president, Vladimir Putin, and a message against the war, although none of them has made it clear that it is so.
Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov are the first crew members to fly to the orbital platform in which the US, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada collaborate since their country invaded Ukraine.
The three cosmonauts blasted off Friday from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in a
Soyuz MS-21 capsule.
Three hours later they arrived at the ISS to begin a mission that will last for six and a half months.
During the maneuvers to dock with the
Soyuz spacecraft
in which the three Russians were traveling to the ISS, one of the cosmonauts can be seen wearing a blue flight suit.
During their day to day life on the ISS, cosmonauts usually wear a blue jumpsuit
, but this time when they joined their mates they wore a yellow jumpsuit with blue labels.
When Commander Oleg Artemyev was asked about the color yellow, he replied that each crew chooses the suit they wear and they don't have to wear the same ones.
"It was up to us to choose a color. A lot of yellow material had accumulated and we needed to use it, so we had to bring yellow,"
he said, according to the AP.
The three Russians joined the seven crew members who are currently on the ISS.
Three of them will leave on March 30: cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who will have to return to Earth on a Russian ship via Kazakhstan after spending 355 days in space.
The other four crew members who are on the ISS are NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and German Matthias Maurer, from the European Space Agency (ESA).
They arrived last November aboard a
Space X Crew Dragon
ship for a six-month mission.
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The future of the ISS has been in the spotlight since the war began due to the threats that the head of the three cosmonauts, Dmitri Rogozin, issued to the international community by warning that Russia could leave the orbital platform in response to the international sanctions.
Despite threats from the director of Roscosmos, operations on the ISS continue to develop normally, although the Russians have left the European Spaceport in French Guiana and launches with their Soyuz rockets have been suspended.
On Thursday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that due to the conflict in Ukraine, it is suspending the launch of the ExoMars22 mission that has been jointly developed by the Russians, and whose takeoff was scheduled for September, after several delays due to technical problems.
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