Personal jets and helicopters belonging to Russian oligarchs are reportedly nonetheless flying within the European Union's (EU) airspace regardless of sanctions imposed after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine.
Regardless of flight bans and sanctions imposed after the Ukraine struggle started on February 24, a minimum of 30 flights allegedly belonging to Russian businessmen have flown over the territory of Europe, German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported.
EU Fee President Ursula von der Leyen introduced that the European Union would shut its airspace to Russian airways and personal jets on February 27—three days after Putin's struggle started.
"These plane will no extra be capable of land in, take off, or overfly the territory of the EU," von der Leyen mentioned on the time.
Since then, Welt am Sonntag has tracked a minimum of 30 flights of personal jets and helicopters owned or managed by Russian businessmen, utilizing information publicly out there by way of flight monitoring web sites.
In mid-March, British authorities seized an plane owned by Russian oligarch and billionaire oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler. Earlier than his $13 million Cessna Quotation Latitude jet was seized, it had flown by the EU eight occasions, together with a number of occasions by Germany's airspace.
The final time the plane flew to London from Hamburg on March 18, nobody stopped its departure, based on the information outlet.
Flight monitoring information additionally present that an plane owned by 68-year-old Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov set off from Munich Airport on February 28—a day after the EU's airspace was shut off to Russian airways and personal jets.
And on March 2, a Bombardier plane with the registration quantity T7-7AA, registered in San Marino and operated by a Swiss firm, flew from Good to Istanbul. The plane belongs to Russian businessman Albert Avdolyan, based on Welt am Sonntag.
A personal jet belonging to considered one of Russia's richest males, Viktor Vekselberg, additionally flew from Basel in April by EU airspace and landed within the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan in April.
The newspaper additionally reported that the helicopter of Russian businessman Alexander Zanadvorov flew over France a minimum of eight occasions.
Many Western nations have additionally issued widespread sanctions on Russian oligarchs as a part of measures to strain Putin over the Ukraine struggle, which started a couple of hundred days in the past.
Some Russian oligarchs, together with Oleg Tinkov, Roman Abramovich, Oleg Deripaska and Mikhail Fridman have spoken out towards the struggle.
Newsweek reached out to Usmanov, Avdolyan, Vekselberg, and the European Fee for remark.
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