3 Russian Cosmonauts wear Ukraine's blue & yellow colour suits for trip to Space Station

To show solidarity with the war-stricken country Ukraine, three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) wearing yellow flight suits with blue accents, colours that seemed to match the Ukrainian flag on Friday.

Russian space agency Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov blasted off successfully from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft.

 

Just over three hours later, they smoothly docked at the International Space Station (ISS). The men were the first new arrivals on the space station since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine last month. They joined two Russians, four Americans, and a German on the ISS.

 

 

 

Multiple former NASA astronauts, including Scott Kelly and Terry Virts, tweeted about the yellow suits with blue accents, assuming they were intended as a show of support for Ukraine.

 

When Artemyev was asked about the suits, the cosmonauts were able to communicate with their families back on Earth. He stated that each crew selects their own, the AP reported. "It became our turn to pick a colour. But in fact, we had accumulated a lot of yellow material, so we needed to use it. So that’s why we had to wear yellow," Artemyev said, according to the AP.