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The United States allowed its airlines to operate in some areas of the Simferopol flight information area. As explained in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, there is no talk of flights over the annexed Crimea, he was referring to the international space over the Black Sea, which is controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
The airspace over the occupied Crimean peninsula is still closed. Then, the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Yekaterina Zelenko, commented on the permission of the United States Federal Aviation Service (FAA) for flights in the flight information area of Simferopol.
The document, adopted by the United States, refers to the lifting of the flight ban in the western part of the Simferopol flight information region, that is, in the international space over the Black Sea, where responsibility for the service is delegated to Ukraine, Zelenko said on Oct. 16 in response to a request from the Crimea.Realii publication. “.
“The airspace over the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was and remains inaccessible for planning and conducting flights. These changes were made as a result of the interaction of specialists from the State Aviation Service of Ukraine and Ukraerorukh with the United States Federal Aviation Administration, “the speaker said in his comment.
The decision not to extend the flight ban in certain areas of the Simferopol flight information area was made by the FAA on October 15 “as a result of a significant reduction in risk to civil aviation safety.” At the same time, the department extended the flight ban in the Dnieper flight information area, as the situation in Donbass “continues to present an unacceptable level of risk to civil aviation.”
Russia annexed Crimea after an energetic blockade of Ukrainian military units and illegal referendum on March 16, 2014… Ukraine and most of the countries of the world do not recognize the accession of the peninsula to the Russian Federation.
The decision to ban civil aviation flights in the Simferopol and Dnipro flight information areas was taken by the United States in December 2014 due to the increased danger in the region in connection with Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. The ban was extended several times. In 2018, the United States allowed its airlines to operate flights to Kharkov, Dnipro and Zaporozhye airports and to fly over some areas of the Black Sea.
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