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The Ministry of Infrastructure has no plans to conduct another round of talks with Russia regarding sanctions against Russian air carrieers, and Ukraine's position is that Russia pay fines for unauthorized flights in occupied Crimea, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Shulmeister told journalists at a business forum in Kyiv on Thursday.
"It's not planned. I know of no plans to conduct another round of talks," he said.
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, Transaero, Rossiya and S7. Ukraine also banned transit flights of Russian airlines through Ukrainian airspace "if they carry defense goods, duel-purpose equipment, or Russian military personnel," the press service said quoting Yatsenyuk who announced this decision at a recent Cabinet meeting. The ban came into force on October 25.
According to Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarskiy, Ukraine imposed sanctions against Russian airlines, as they had illegally been carrying out flights to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory of Crimea, which were banned in 2014. Ukraine has documentary evidence of such violations. Ukrainian sanctions affected 29 Russian airlines, 27 of which carried out illegal flights to Crimea, and two Ukrainian companies nationalized by the occupation authorities of Crimea.
The Russian Federation responded to Ukraine's move with retaliatory measures, barring as of October 25 the Ukrainian airlines from flying to Russia. Three Ukrainian airlines, namely UIA, Dniproavia and YanAir, have already received notices of restrictions on their flights to Russia.