A Russian Soyuz spacecraft touched down on the Kazakh steppe today, carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut back to Earth after a long period on the International Space Station (ISS).

The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying two Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chubb and Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson landed at 11.59 GMT (14:59 Greek time).

Kononenko and Chubb, who have been on the International Space Station since last September, completed their 374-day mission.