Ukraine threatens to collect 3 billion from Russia for flights to Crimea
Ukraine wants to recover approximately three billion hryvnias from Russia for flights operated by Russian airlines to Simferopol Airport. This was stated by Izet Gdanov, Deputy Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, on the Mejlis television channel ATR, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to him, each landing of a plane at the airport without permission from Ukraine costs 136 thousand hryvnia.
“43 Russian airlines operate these flights. Every fact of illegal landing at the airport of Simferopol is documented. This is all an administrative offense that is documented. The sanction of the article is 136 thousand hryvnia for each landing. To date, about 30 thousand protocols have been drawn up for more than three billion hryvnia. These are all sanctions that must be collected from Russian airlines that violate Ukrainian legislation and international law,” Gdanov said.
Ukraine threatens to collect 3 billion rubles from Russia for flights to Crimea.