103 aircrafts operated by 17 Russian airlines flew to the occupied Crimea on July 15

According to BSNews and Maidan of Foreign Affairs (Kyiv), more than 103 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 15.

Aeorflot carried out 17 flights. Ural Airlines and Orenburg airlines carried out 14 flights each to the occupied Crimea. VIM-Avia performed 12 flights to Simferopol.

Red Wings carried out 9 flights.

Yamal carried out 7 flights to Simferopol.

Transaero, S7 Airlines and Globus operated 6 flights each.

Donavia carried out 3 flights.

Grozny-Avia and Rossiya carried out 2 flights each to the occupied Crimea.

SarAvia, Mordovia Airlines, Alrosa, Ikar and Center-South carried out 1 flight each to Simferopol.

56 out of 103 routes were Simferopol-Moscow, 17 routes were Simferopol-St. Petersburg.

4 flights headed to each Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. 3 flights landed in Rostov. 2 flights landed in each Perm, Belgorod, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk. 1 flight headed to 11 Russian cities: Anapa, Tyumen, Krasnodar, Samara, Arkhangelsk, Krasnoyarsk, Saratov, Grozny, Kazan, Astrakhan, Khabarovsk.

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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.