Meanwhile, the European Union is preparing its 14th package of sanctions against Russia, and in the USA, efforts are underway to identify ways in which Russia circumvents them and to try to prevent this.

At the same time, Ukrainian officials propose adding a ban on aviation transit through the EU to the Russian Federation and Belarus to the restrictions.

He believes that the call by the Prime Minister of Ukraine to European colleagues to introduce a ban on aviation transit to the Russian Federation and Belarus is absolutely logical.

So there is hope that support from European partners regarding this issue will be forthcoming, and restrictions will be adopted in the near future.

In 2022, severe sanctions were applied to the Russian aviation industry: most of the civilised world closed the sky to Russian planes, and some lessors demanded the return of their planes.

Russia did not return anything and actually seized the planes illegally.

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