Monday, October 26, 2015

Ukraine terminated air communication with Russian Federation

On October 25 direct air flights between Ukraine and the Russian Federation came to an end. The decision was taken to fulfill a resolution of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine of September 2, 2015 "On Imposition of Personal Special Economic and Other Restrictive Measures (Sanctions)".
Russian airlines are banned to perform direct flights to Ukrainian cities, however, transit flights over the territory of Ukraine are afforded, if an aircraft is not carrying dual-use or military goods or Russian military manpower.
Whereas, a particular mode of transit flights through Ukraine is applied for the Aeroflot and the Transaeroairlines. These carriers should contact the State aviation service to obtain a transit permission for each particularflight through Ukraine in the communication between the Russian Federation and Bulgaria, Israel, Turkey, Egypt and Greece.


It should be noted that Ukraine imposed sanctions against 29 Russian airlines that violated the national legislation of Ukraine and an intergovernmental agreement by performing flights to the annexed Crimea and via the prohibited areas.
In response the Russian side illegally banned fights of a number of Ukrainian carriers, thus forcing the State Aviation Service to completely stop air communications with Ukraine for all the Russian air companies.  
On October 23, Ukraine agreed to numerous requests of the Russian side to meet and discuss air service and had technical consultations with the Russian delegation at the headquarters of the European Commission inBrussels. The consistent position of the Ukrainian side is as follows: to launch the negotiations Russian airlinesshould cease the illegal flights to annexed Crimea and through the forbidden zones, and also to pay all the fines imposed by the State Aviation Service on Aeroflot and other Russian airlines throughout 2014-2015.
A decision on further consultations will be taken by leadership of the country.

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