Plane in the skyHELSINKI, Apr 8 Russian aircraft on Friday morning.» A Russian state aircraft is suspected of violating Finnish airspace in the Porvoo area in the Gulf of Finland on the morning of April 8, 2022. The duration of the alleged airspace violation was three minutes, and the aircraft that committed the alleged violation was of the Il-96 type -300″, — the Ministry of Defense claims. authorities about violating the country's airspace for a week. On April 6, the country's police announced that four Russian passenger planes allegedly entered Finnish airspace off the coast near the city of Loviisa in the Gulf of Finland without obtaining the required permission. Western countries imposed another round of anti-Russian sanctions after the start of a special operation in Ukraine. A number of EU countries, the United States and Canada closed the sky for flights of Russian aircraft. In connection with the closure of airspace by European countries, air transportation to the Kaliningrad region was established along an alternative route. Trains to the region run as usual. The Kaliningrad authorities declared the region's readiness for any scenario, including existence in the «energy island» mode. At present, the air route of mainland Russia with Kaliningrad is intensively used through the airspace of the Gulf of Finland.
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