Russia denies cosmonauts boarded space station in Ukranian colours

As reported by BBC News, the cosmonauts had a warm welcome from other Russian, German and American crew. The three men were wearing vibrant yellow spacesuits that had blue trimmings.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine the colours of the Ukrainian national flag have been worn around the world in support of the nation.

‘Sometimes yellow is just yellow,’ remarked the Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.

The three Russian cosmonauts Denis Matveyev, Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Korsakov, successfully docked after a three-hour flight that was launched in Kazakhstan from a Russian-owned base. Their standard uniform is plain blue.

The ISS is led by a ‘US-Russian partnership’ and despite high tensions between the two world powers, it has sustained itself for 20 years. Several European countries, as well as Canada and Japan, are also part of this joint project.

The moment that the men boarded the ISS was live-streamed by both Nasa and Roscosmos.

‘It became our turn to pick a colour,’ said Oleg Artemyev in a press conference that was streamed live. He joked that ‘We had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it, that’s why we had to wear yellow.’