Three Russian cosmonauts carried the flag of the self-proclaimed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). “People’s Republic“ Upheld Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and congratulated Russian troops on taking the region. “We celebrate both on earth and in space“they wrote in a photo-accompanied message on the Telegram channel of the Russian space agency Roskosmos.
Russian soldiers and pro-Russian separatists were in complete control of Lysychansk, the “last big city” in the “People’s Republic“ Taken over Luhansk, explained the cosmonauts Oleg Artemiyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov.
On Sunday, after weeks of fighting, the Ukrainian army gave up defending Lysychansk. The Russian Ministry of Defense had previously declared that the entire Donbass region would be Luhansk with the capture of the city “freed“ been.
“We are convinced that July 3, 2022 will forever go down in the history of the Republic“, it said on the Telegram channel of Roskosmos. The residents of the neighboring “People’s Republic“ Donetsk were asked to “waiting“.
The West imposed sanctions on Russia’s space agency after President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February. The ISS is a joint project of the USA, Canada, Japan, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia. The station is divided into a Russian and a US segment. (AFP)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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