Turkmen airline Turkmenistan Airlines announced on Saturday that connections between Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat and Moscow have been canceled from December 30 to January 31.
Flydubai also canceled its flights between December 27 and January 3 flights from Dubai to the south Russia. The Kazakh airline Qazaq Air also announced that its flights to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg will be suspended until the end of January.
Israeli airline El Al announced on Thursday (December 26, 2024) that due to the situation in Russian airspace, it was canceling its flights to Russia for a week.
Russian anti-aircraft missile
On Wednesday (December 25, 2024), it crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan plane passenger Embraer 190 of Azerbaijan Airlines with 67 passengers. 38 people died. The plane was originally flying from Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, to Grozny, Chechnya, but then diverted towards Aktau, where it crashed and burst into flames.
According to the hypothesis of several Western experts, the plane could have been shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile. There are “preliminary indications” that “the plane was shot down by Russian air defense systems,” White House spokesman John Kirby explained, without providing further details.
“The President of Russia Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for the fact that the tragic accident took place in Russian airspace,” the Kremlin said after the two leaders' telephone conversation. Putin also announced that Russian air defense against Ukrainian drone attacks was deployed at that time.
(AFP/DPA/jar)
The article comes from the website Deutsche Welle