FILE PHOTO: Members of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) agency arrive at ICAO headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo
(Reuters) -Russia is urging the U.N. civil aviation agency to ease sanctions on spare parts and overflights, dismissing its response to the war in Ukraine as "unlawful coercive measures," according to working papers and a source familiar with the matter.
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Western sanctions have cut off access to foreign-made aircraft and spare parts, leaving Russian airlines to source parts for more than 700 mostly Airbus and Boeing jets on complex, indirect import routes.
