Spacecraft Soyuz MS-27 He reached the global Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday after more than 3 hours of flight, reported NASA.
On board were American Jonathan Kim and Russians: Sergei Ryżykov and Alexey Zubricki. However, media attention has focused in fresh hours on the second – it turns out that Zubricki is simply a Ukrainian deserter.
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Alexey Zubricki is 32 years old. The man is on the list of Ukrainian deserters, and in March the Ukrainian authorities sentenced him For 15 years in prison for treason – describes “Daily Mail”.
– After committing treason and desertion, he joined Russia's armed forces, where he inactive serves, besides as a cosmonaut," said the prosecutor quoted by British tabloid.
Alexey Zubricki went into space. Media: A Ukrainian traitor
Zubricki was born in 1992 in Ukrainian dam circuit and until 2014 served in Army air force in Sevastopol, Crimea.
When the Russians illegally annexed the peninsula, he switched to their side.
In 2017, he reported a willingness to participate in the space program. In August 2024, his candidacy as an onboard engineer was approved.
Russian media were amused to describe Zubricki's case. The Russian Shot channel indicated that the Ukrainians wanted to halt him, only that he was “currently in space”.
There were besides suggestions in the media that Zubricki was selected not due to experience or skills, but due to propaganda and ideological reasons, to show that "The Ukrainian who chose Russia now flies into space".
Source: "Daily Mail", "The Mirror"
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