Smolensk disaster: in the Russian Federation reacted to the demand to issue dispatchers

The Kremlin has a negative attitude towards Poland’s demand to extradite three Russian air traffic controllers who were working the day the Polish president’s plane crashed.

Russian President Dmitry Peskov’s press secretary said Moscow has a negative attitude towards Poland’s initiative to arrest Russian air traffic controllers who worked during President Lech Kaczynski’s 2010 plane crash. He told reporters about this on Thursday, September 17, reports TASS.

“In general, conceptually, I will say this: we treat negatively,” said a Kremlin spokesman, answering a relevant question.

Earlier, the Polish Attorney General’s Office reported that “we are talking about dispatchers Pavel P., Viktor R. and Nikolay K.”

“I do not know if there were contacts and legal actions in accordance with international practice, if our Attorney General’s Office or the investigating authorities received any requests from Warsaw,” said Peskov, noting that there were no known ones.

The day before, it was learned that Warsaw had started the procedure for the arrest of Russian dispatchers associated with the Tu-154 disaster near Smolensk. Today, the media reported, citing one source, that this requirement is unworkable, as Russia does not extradite its citizens abroad.

As a reminder, on April 10, 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s Tu-154 plane crashed in Russia while landing at Smolensk-Severny Airport. On board there were 96 people flying to the funeral events in Katyn. All died.

It was previously reported that the results of the British laboratory’s investigation confirmed the conclusions of the Polish subcommittee investigating the causes of the accident of the presidential Tu-154, according to which the destruction of the plane caused the explosions.

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