MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Direct flights between Russia and Ukraine are unlikely to restart any time soon, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, after links were severed in a tit-for-tat row over Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Direct air services between the one-time allies ceased on Sunday, a new low for commercial relations between the two neighbours, who have been locked in a bitter standoff since a pro-European uprising in Kiev and the annexation by Russia of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.
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