99 aircrafts operated by 17 Russian airlines flew to the occupied Crimea on July 24

According to BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs (Kyiv), more than 99 passenger airliners arrived to (and departed from) the Simferopol International Airport, the only airport in Crimea which was occupied and annexed by Russia on July 24.

Aeroflot carried out 17 flights. VIM-Avia operated 13 flights to the occupied Crimea and Ural Airlines carried out 11 flights. Orenburg airlines operated 9 flights.

Red Wings and Yamal carried out 8 flights each.

Transaero, S7 Airlines and Globus operated 6 flights each.

Donavia carried out 4 flights to Simferopol.

Grozny-Avia and Kostroma carried out 2 flights each. Ikar, Rossiya, Mordovia Airlines, SarAvia and Izhavia operated 1 flight each to Simferopol.

60 out of 99 routes were Simferopol-Moscow, 9 routes were Simferopol-St. Petersburg.

4 flights landed in Yekaterinburg. 3 flights headed to each Novosibirsk and Rostov. 2 flights landed in Tyumen. 1 flight headed to 18 Russian cities: Kirov, Voronezh, Kostroma, Belgorod, Astrakhan, Izhevsk, Samara, Arkhangelsk, Tomsk, Krasnodar, Begishevo, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul, Anapa, Mineralnyye Vody, Kazan, Saratov.

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The airlines and crews of their aircrafts listed above have thereby violated Article 332-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

"Article 332-1. Violation of the procedure for entering and leaving the territory of Ukraine under temporary occupation:

1. Violation of the procedure for entering and leaving the territory of Ukraine under temporary occupation for the purpose of harming the interests of the state are punishable with restraint or imprisonment for up to three years and confiscation of vehicles.
2. The same acts committed repeatedly or with prior conspiracy in a group of people, or by an official through abuse of office are punishable with imprisonment for up to 5 years and deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to three years, as well as confiscation of vehicles.
3. The actions specified in items 1 or 2 of this Article, if committed by an organized group, are punishable with imprisonment for five to eight years, deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term up to three years, and confiscation of vehicles”

BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs (Kyiv) calls on the law enforcement authorities to respond to the violations of the legal procedures for the occupied territory: 

BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs have included the airlines and respective aircrafts into the “black list” of those who violated the legal procedures for the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.

This means that we closely monitor and carry out other administrative, diplomatic, aviation and law-related actions with regard to these airlines and specific aircrafts. These actions have prospects as good as similar actions with regard to violations committed by ships.  

Our followers are welcome to participate actively in the Black List project for both marine and air transport.

We would like to ask volunteers to continue their detailed monitoring of the numbers of specific airliners, so that these could be further sent to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in order to ban these airlines and aircrafts entrance to the airports of civilized countries.