The ship brought food such as fruit and vegetables, water, fuel and scientific equipment for the three-man crew of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and US astronauts Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tanin, the Interfax news agency reported citing Russian space officials.

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