ISS: Russian cosmonauts send V-Day greetings from space

SOT, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Russian cosmonaut (Russian): "The modern world is changing, [it is] becoming more transparent: new technologies, new principles of interaction, social networks, traveling. Our world is huge and open, and this imposes special obligations on us: obligations of friendship, good-neighbourliness, [and] mutual assistance [which we nourish] also here, on the International Space Station. From here, from space, we can see how beautiful and, at the same time, how fragile our planet is. We must do so that our children and our grandchildren, [and] many generations after them, [will] live happily, without wars, [and will be] carefully saving the Earth. Congratulations! Happy Victory Day!"
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Fyodor Yurchikhin congratulated Russians on Victory Day from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday.
Oleg Novitskiy stated that “war entered into the life of every family of the Soviet Union” and praised the Russian people for the fact that they “rebuilt the country and became even stronger and more united.”
For his part, Fyodor Yurchikhin, said that “from space, we can see how beautiful and, at the same time, how fragile our planet is.” He went on urging not just Russians, but all mankind to do everything “so that our children and our grandchildren, [and] many generations after them, [will] live happily, without wars, [and will be] carefully saving the Earth.”
A number of commemorative events celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the official capitulation of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II took place in 26 Russian cities to mark the date.