Flights between Russia and Ukraine to stop due to sanctions


  • World
  • Saturday, 24 Oct 2015

MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Flights between Russia and Ukraine will be terminated on Sunday after the countries exchanged sanctions against their airlines amid a standoff over Moscow's support of separatists in the east of Ukraine.

Kiev said last month it would ban direct flights by Russian airlines, including flagship carrier Aeroflot, from Oct. 25 to punish them for flying to Crimea, a peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

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