Kiev said Monday it was banning all Russian airlines from flying into Ukraine from October 25 in a tit-for-tat response to Moscow’s decision to impose a similar ban last month.
The punitive measure appeared to concern only two carriers — Siberia’s UTair and the tiny Saratov Airlines — because Kiev had earlier barred bigger Russian firms in reprisal for Moscow’s annexation of Crimea last year.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on September 16 blacklisted Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot and three other state-held companies that offer regular flights to the war-torn former Soviet republic.
A spokeswoman for the State Air Service in Kiev said the …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
