'I have a very important message for my Russian friends living in Russia about the war in Ukraine. You are not getting the truth from Putin's government.'
HOUSTON, Texas -- A retired astronaut is taking to social media, trying to stop the war in Ukraine.
Years after retiring as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force and from NASA, Virts has joined the fight to save Ukraine., he is posting videos to his more than 200,000 followers. During his second mission in 2014, he went up on a Russian rocket, just as Russia was invading Crimea."You could see these red flashes. So I was watching Russian bombs killing Ukrainians from space with my cosmonaut colleague," Virts said.
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