State aviation service of Ukraine state aviation administration) is going to penalize Russian airline for flights over the territory of Crimea, citing the Ministry of infrastructure of Ukraine.

As underlined by the Agency, the state aviation service of Ukraine has already passed 3, 493 thousand orders for violation of air space totaling 475, 048 million. The highest number of cases opened regarding airline "Aeroflot - Russian airlines" Vim-Avia " and " Transaero ".

After the accession of Crimea into the Russian Federation Ukrainian aviation authorities direct air carriers that had previously been filled by transit flights over the Crimea, bypassing. In April, the European organisation for safety of air navigation (EUROCONTROL) has banned European carriers flying to the Crimea, for example airports in Simferopol (code UKFF) and Sevastopol (UKFB). EUROCONTROL has decided to reject all bids for the flights in connection with the relevant recommendations of the Ukrainian authorities. In the Ministry of transport of the Russian Federation noted that the flights over the Crimea is not in conflict with the rules of ICAO.

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