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Ukraine formally warns airlines that Russian airspace is unsafe

Kyiv officially notified international aviation authorities of growing risks to civilian aircraft over Russia, a day after President Zelenskyy urged foreign airlines to avoid its airspace.


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00:01Ukraine has formally informed the International Civil Aviation Organization that Russia's airspace is unsafe for civilian traffic, Foreign Minister Andrei
00:11Sibiha said on Wednesday.
00:13He said Russia had been deliberately ignoring the existing threats created by its all-out war against Ukraine,
00:20arguing that the risks had already resulted in several aviation incidents in recent years.
00:26The formal notification came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned airlines, insurers and businesses using Russian main airports
00:36that the country's airspace is now becoming increasingly dangerous as Kyiv expands its long-range drone operations.
00:53Ukraine does not threaten civilian aviation, Zelenskyy insisted, while warning that the growing scale of Ukrainian drone operations inside Russia
01:02meant the risks could no longer be ignored.
01:05He said Russian airspace would effectively be closing as the consequences of Moscow's war increasingly returned to Russian territory.
01:13P burners in a country.
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