STORY: A Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said on Tuesday (December 9).

Video from the agency showed Ryzhikov and Kim being removed from the spacecraft and undergoing post-landing medical checks.

The spacecraft landed at 8:04 a.m. Moscow time (0504 GMT) near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, the agency said.

The astronauts returned to earth after completing an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station, according to US space agency, NASA.

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VIDEO SHOWS: SCREEN SHOWING SPACECRAFT IN AIR / SCREEN IN COMMAND CENTRE SAYING "LANDING HAS HAPPENED" / COSMONAUT SERGEI RYZHIKOV AND NASA ASTRONAUT JONATHAN KIM BEING REMOVED FROM SPACECRAFT

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SHOWS: NEAR ZHEZKAZGAN, KAZAKHSTAN (DECEMBER 9, 2025) (ROSCOSMOS – Do not obscure logo)

1. SCREEN SHOWING SPACECRAFT IN AIR

2. STAFF IN COMMAND CENTRE / SCREEN SHOWING WORDS READING (Russian): “Landing has happened”

3. OFFICIALS GATHERING AROUND SPACECRAFT

4. SPACECRAFT ON GROUND

5. OFFICIALS GATHERING AROUND SPACECRAFT

6. OFFICIAL OPENING SPACECRAFT DOOR

7. OFFICIALS GATHERED AROUND SPACECRAFT

8. VARIOUS OF COSMONAUT SERGEI RYZHIKOV CARRIED OUT OF SPACECRAFT AND MOVED TO CHAIR

9. RYZHIKOV SMILING WHILE SEATED IN CHAIR, OFFICIAL CHECKING BLOOD PRESSURE

10. VARIOUS OF NASA ASTRONAUT JONATHAN KIM CARRIED OUT OF SPACECRAFT AND MOVED TO CHAIR

11. OFFICIALS PUTTING BLANKETS ON KIM, KIM SMILING AND WAVING

12. VARIOUS OF RYZHIKOV WRITING MESSAGE ON BODY OF SPACECRAFT

13. DRONE SHOT OF SPACECRAFT LANDING SITE WITH OFFICIALS GATHERED

14. KIM TALKING ON THE PHONE