Russia denies ISS cosmonauts wore yellow and blue suits to support Ukraine

There were reports that Russia's cosmonauts wore yellow suits with blue accents to show their support for Ukraine.

The suits the three cosmonauts wore when they arrived at the International Space Station were said to be a show of support for the country Russia is attacking.

Russia dismissed the idea as fanciful on Saturday.

The suits needed to be individually sewn by each crew, so they picked the colors six months before launch. He said that they were chosen because they all graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

There is no need to look for hidden signs or symbols in our uniform, Artemyev said in a statement on the Russian space agency's Telegram channel. A colour is not something else. It is not connected to Ukraine. We have to recognize its rights to the yellow sun in the sky.

Even though we are in space, we are together with our president and people.

The head of the space agency posted a picture of the university's coat of arms.

Artemyev said there was a lot of yellow material in storage and that was why they wore yellow.

After Russia said it would stop supplying rocket engines to US companies, the administrator of Nasa, Bill Nelson, played down hostile comments by Russia.

Nelson told the Associated Press that it was just Dmitry Rogozin. He worked with us at the end of the day.

The Russian invasion resulted in the cancellation of launches and broken contracts. Many are concerned that decades of work is at risk because of Rogozin.

While threatening to pull out of the space station and drop it on the US, Europe or elsewhere, he had the flags of other countries covered on a Soyuz rocket.

The launch was called off after the customer, London-based OneWeb, refused the demand that the satellites not be used for military purposes.

The European Space Agency said on Thursday that it was suspending its mission because of the war in Ukraine.

Nelson said that they can have a cooperation with their Russian friends. The civilian space programme has cooperation going on.

The space station has been occupied by the US and Russia for 21 years.

Mark Vande Hei's plans remained the same despite a video that showed two Russian cosmonauts waving him goodbye. The computer-generated video of the Russian segment detaching and floating away was shown to the mission control team.

RIA Novosti shared a video with a Russian song. The caption said that the Russian segment of the station could be undone without the American part of the project.

The Russian state news agency Tass said that American astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Pyotr Dubrov will return to Earth on March 30.

• The Associated Press contributed to the report.