** Editor's note : this image is distributed by Russian state owned agency Sputnik **
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko meet with recent International Space Station (ISS) mission crew members Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Belarus' first female cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 12, 2024. (Photo by Gavriil GRIGOROV / POOL / AFP)