“America is with us”: In Kyiv they expect the United States to begin arresting planes for Crimea
US law enforcement agencies may begin to detain planes of Russian airlines flying both to Crimea and to American cities.
Ukrainian economist Andriy Klimenko, who fled Crimea and has now declared himself a member of the "Maidan of Foreign Affairs," announced this on the Mejlis television channel ATR, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Klimenko, the problem is that many of the planes formally belong to American and European companies, so their arrest will play against their “partners.”
“The fact is that most of the planes that fly to Crimea are leased planes that belong to Boeing and Airbus. That is, they have not yet been purchased by Russian air carriers. And, in fact, if they are arrested, then damage is caused to our allies, that is, to companies in the United States and the European Union.
Therefore, it was difficult to find a solution, and I see that recently the “prosecutor’s office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea” apparently found such solutions, because it announced arrest for several dozen courts. And, most likely, some joint actions will follow with the security forces of the relevant countries in Europe and the United States.
In any case, I know that the United States expressed a desire to work on such legal schemes in order to detain such aircraft that fly in small numbers to both Crimea and New York. Therefore, this work is underway, and I am an optimist here,” Klimenko said.
Earlier, former Minister of Transport of Crimea Anatoly Tsurkin stated how Russian companies avoid the arrest of aircraft by the West.
“Air carriers at one time, back in 2014, when carrying out flights to Crimea, divided aircraft into domestic Russian ones, which mostly do not leave the territory of the country, and aircraft that do not carry out air transportation to Crimea, but fly abroad. These are completely different aircraft, and there will be no consequences for them,” Tsurkin told PolitNavigator.
"America is with us" : Kyiv expects the US to begin seizing planes over Crimea