Three cosmonauts donned Ukraine-flag colors when boarding the space station, but now the Russians say the fashion choice had nothing to do with support for Ukraine.
Three cosmonauts boarded the International Space Station on Friday (March 18) donning bright-yellow and blue flight suits, with some likening the fashion choice to the Russian trio’s support of Ukraine. Now, the Russian space agency has not only denied but ridiculed that interpretation. “Sometimes yellow is just yellow,” Roscosmos’ press service said on its Telegram channel, Reuters reported. The three cosmonauts, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, docked their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft with the space station, and joined seven crewmates already onboard on Friday. On Saturday (March 19), the Russian space agency released a statement quoting Artemyev responding to questions about the Ukraine-flag color choice: “There is no need to look for any hidden signs or symbols in our uniform.
