REUTERS
The State Aviation Service of Ukraine has sent a warning to the Russian airlines, which fell under sanctions in accordance with the decision of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, on a ban to fly into Ukraine from October 25, 2015, the press service of the Service has told an UNIAN correspondent.
"The letters with appropriate warnings have already been sent," the reports says.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on September 25, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that in keeping with National Security and Defense Council decisions, Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers had decided to toughen anti-Russian sanctions by banning flights carried out by Russian airlines, namely Aeroflot and Transaero. Ukraine also banned transit flights of Russian airlines through Ukrainian airspace "if they carry defense goods, dual-purpose equipment, or Russian military personnel," the press service said quoting Yatsenyuk who announced this decision at a recent Cabinet meeting.
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