New Delhi: Roscosmos, Russian Space Agency Director General Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin said that the launchers at Baikonur decided that without the flags of some countries, our rocket would look more beautiful.

In his tweet on Thursday has a video that shows Russian workers at the spaceport erasing the flags of other nations. India’s flag, however, remains untouched. India yesterday supported the international community’s call for an immediate ceasefire after abstaining on a UN General Assembly resolution that strongly deplored Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the third abstention in less than a week by India. Russia has thanked India for its stand on the crisis.

🔴#Russian space agency workers remove flags of #US #UK & #Japan from the #Soyuz rocket that was supposed to launch a batch of satellites this week. The workers left the #Indian flag untouched in the 1.52-minute video. pic.twitter.com/SypPcqHPSu

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Russian Space Agency has removed the flags of several nations including the US and Japan, but kept India’s flag intact painted on a massive rocket in the spaceport Baikonur. The symbolic move by the space agency Roscosmos that shows ties between Russia and these nations have nosedived comes a week after Russia invaded Ukraine over the East European nation’s attempts to join the NATO.

Roscosmos, earlier known as the Russian Federal Space Agency, was formed in 1992 after merging the agency and United Rocket and Space Corporation, a joint-stock entity meant to bolster the space sector.