Russia may close the sky in case of sanctions against Aeroflot
First Deputy Head of the International Committee of the Federation Council Vladimir Dzhabarov said that if sanctions are imposed on Aeroflot, the Russian Federation will be forced to consider the issue of banning the passage of Western airlines over its territory.
Earlier Bloomberg agency disseminated information that EU authorities are discussing the possibility of imposing sanctions against the Russian airline Aeroflot as part of a new sanctions package against Belarus related to the migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border.
Aeroflot has nothing to do with it. They are trying to “bite” Russia at any cost, – I liked it in a conversation with RIA News parliamentarian.
The politician recalled that in case of imposition of sanctions Analogs of counterweights.
In addition, if Western sanctions by the authorities affect individuals in Aeroflot, similar sanctions may be imposed by Russia against sanctions of Western airlines, the senator, adding that the initiative was taken by “hotheads who did not calculate the consequences of such steps.”
“I hope it doesn’t come to that,” he concluded.