When three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station wearing yellow flight suits with blue accents, some saw a message in them wearing the colours of the Ukrainian flag.
They shot that down that notion on Saturday.
Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev said each crew picks the colour of the flight suits about six months before launch because they need to be individually sewn.
And since all three of them were graduates of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, they chose the colours of their prestigious alma mater.
“There is no need to look for any hidden signs or symbols in our uniform,” Artemyev said in a statement on the Russian space agency’s Telegram channel.