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  • Source: Agencies
  • 5 Jul 2022 11:55
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Following the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Lugansk, the Russian space Agency astronauts raise the DPR and DLR flags on the ISS.

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  • DPR  and LPR  flags fly on the International Space Station
    Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov, the three Russian astronauts, holding the LPR flag in the ISS (Roscosmos)

In a photo published by Russia's space agency, cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) have been seen holding the flags of the breakaway states Lugansk and Donetsk. Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov are the three cosmonauts that appear in the photo captioned with “Liberation Day of the Lugansk People’s Republic! We celebrate both on Earth and in space,” as seen on the official Roscosmos telegram channel.

The caption further reads “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’," adding "This is a long-awaited day that residents of the occupied areas of the Lugansk 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!”

On June 3rd, a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft, without any crew, docked with the space station. The spacecraft departed from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and was, according to NASA, carrying approximately three tons of supplies. As such, it was unclear how the flags made it to the space station.

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The three Russian cosmonauts, Artemyev, Matveyev and Korsakov, were the first Russian astronauts to board the International Space Station (ISS) during the ongoing war in Ukraine, which started on February 24.

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