On its Telegram and Twitter accounts, Roscosmos also dismissed the idea that the cosmonauts were expressing support for Ukraine.

But in fact, we had accumulated a lot of yellow material, so we needed to use it.

Asked during a press conference after arriving at the ISS about the reason for the colours of their uniforms, the response from Artemyev, the mission commander, was simple: “It became our turn to pick a color.On March 18, cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov of Russia's Roscosmos space agency were the first ones to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) since the start of the War in Ukraine.Russian cosmonauts did not wear blue and yellow spacesuits to support Ukraineįalse claim: Social media users around the world shared a photo of three Russian cosmonauts wearing blue-and-yellow spacesuits, alongside the claim that this was in support of Ukraine. On Maa China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 carrying 132 people from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed in the mountains of southern China's Guangxi region, leaving no survivors.On Maa Boeing 737 Max 8 flying from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to Nairobi, Kenya, crashed with 157 people on board, leaving no survivors.In the video description, the author explains that the clip was made using flight simulator “X-Plane 11” to reproduce an Ethiopian Airlines accident.A reverse image search shows that the clip shared on social media is part of a video published in 2019 by a YouTube channel called Bull Bosphorus.Video of plane crash does not show final moments aboard China Eastern Airlines flightįalse claim: A video of a plane crash has been shared thousands of times on social media around the world, alongside the claim that the clip was recorded by a passenger during the final moments of the fatal China Eastern Airlines crash of March 21, 2022. Here are some of the most shared false claims of this week, of which none are legit. Blasting News’s editorial team spots the most popular hoaxes and misleading information every week to help you discern truth from falsehood. The world of news is complex – and false stories and images are often widely shared on social media.

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