The oligarchs only had a few hours to leave Ukraine on February 23, 2022 after meeting with Zelensky — then Ukrainian skies was closed to civilian flights.
Not everyone left, some oligarchs still remain in the country, and even in Kyiv. And some flew away immediately after visiting the Office of the President, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.
With a difference of ten minutes, Pinchuk and Akhmetov flew to Kyiv to meet with the President on February 23, 2022.
Viktor Pinchuk < p>According to public online radar data, Pinchuk's plane returned to London in the evening of the same day. A few hours before the Russian offensive.
According to «Ukrainian Pravda» sources, Viktor Pinchuk left the country after meeting at the president's office.
Until March 4, 2022, the plane did not fly anywhere, and on that day it left London for the Slovak city of Kosice, which is located near the border with Ukraine. The next day, the plane flew from Kosice to Nice and immediately returned to London.
Since Ukraine closed the sky, the flight of Pinchuk’s plane to one of the airport bridges closest to the Ukrainian border may mean the evacuation of someone from the oligarch’s entourage to France.
On March 7, Pinchuk's plane left London again, took off for Vienna and returned the same day.
Rinat Akhmetov
Two of Akhmetov's planes, according to online radar data, have not left Budapest since February 24, 2022. Akhmetov's third jet has been in London since February 15.
In a commentary to the UE, the businessman's press service said that he was in Ukraine.
The planes, according to Akhmetov's press service, are definitely not evacuated.
Vadim Novinsky
Five hours after Vadim Novinsky's visit to Bankova on February 23, 2022, the plane he uses landed at the Kyiv airport. At 2:15, that is, three hours before the Russian troops attacked the territory of Ukraine, the plane took off and flew to the airport in Kosice, Slovakia.
On the same day, the plane flew to Dresden, Germany, and from there returned to St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. From Russia, the plane flew to the Estonian capital of Tallinn and did not fly anywhere else over the next days.
On March 3, 2022, the plane took off from Tallinn to the Romanian city of Yasi, which is located near the Ukrainian border. Then he flew to Vienna, and from Vienna — to Egypt.
On March 4, the plane again flew to Romania. Then he flew to Istanbul. From Istanbul to Greece, and from there to Austrian Vienna, where the plane is now.
Vadim Novinsky said in a commentary that he was in Kyiv. He also said that a few hours before the start of the military aggression of the Russian Federation, his wife flew to Kyiv. And the plane flights on March 3 and 4, he says, are due to the fact that acquaintances turned to the businessman for help in transporting families.
Igor Kolomoisky
Igor Kolomoisky has been in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, like almost all of the last three years . He appears in the investigation of the American FBI regarding the possible withdrawal of funds from Privatbank, and therefore does not leave the country so as not to be extradited to the United States.
Most of the aircraft of the «Privat» group, according to public online radars, by the time Ukraine closed the sky, remained at the airports of Kyiv and the Dnieper. Igor Kolomoisky confirmed that he is in Ukraine.
Dmitry Firtash
Oligarch Dmitry Firtash has been forced to stay in Austria since 2014 . The plane belonging to Firtash's business structures flew to Hungary on March 6, 2022. Then he flew to Cyprus. And from Cyprus he returned to Vienna, where the oligarch lives.