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> 2. If they determine that the leak is slow enough to safely allow a reentry attempt, I expect them to pack up the 3 cosmonauts who are assigned to that soyuz and send em home pronto while that window is open.

To make it worse... If I understood the situation in these twitter posts correctly, they were in the middle of a spacewalk. So they'd need to first quickly terminate that spacewalk, which also takes some time.

Edit: according to https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2022/12/14/spacewalk-can... they were still preparing for the spacewalk, so they weren't outside yet.