Zakharova responded to the words of a former US astronaut about Russian "thieves" cosmonauts

Russian cosmonauts stole from the United States only the victory in the space race. This was stated to Izvestia on May 31 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

This is how she commented on the statement of the American politician and former astronaut Mark Kelly, who called the Russian cosmonauts "thieves."

"The only thing that the Russian cosmonauts stole was the victory in the space race from the United States," the diplomat noted.

Zakharova stressed that it was in the USSR that an artificial satellite of the Earth, as well as a human, was first launched into space.

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