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LOL. Lukashenka and Putin will be very upset and will care so much about that. Hijacking Protasevich was a demonstration of power, a showtime for Russian and Bi

LOL. Lukashenka and Putin will be very upset and will care so much about that. Hijacking Protasevich was a demonstration of power, a showtime for Russian and Bialorusian intelligence competence and ability to operate abroad. This was a Polish plane flying from one EU country to another EU country with EU citizens on-board that was clearly hijacked. Mig-29 was sent to make sure this will happen. What EU did? Blocked Belorussian planes for one day (looking on Flight Radar, blockade is gone now)? Changing street name? What else, twits, likes and crayons? This is exactly what Putin wants - he wants to show that EU, NATO are not able to protect their interest in Central Europe, more, that they don't even care about this. Russia do this using force - Crimea invasion and catching Protasevich or using economy and influence - German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was bribed by Russians to start building Nord Stream, then Nord Stream 2 followed.

ddalex 5y ago
(looking on Flight Radar, blockade is gone now) Just out of curiosity, I checked now (2021-05-27 10:38 UTC) and not one flight over Belarus is an EU airline: * Aeroflot, MOSCOW to BELGRADE * Unmarked plane T7-HHH under San Marino registration * Belavia, Minsk to Belgrade * Fedex, Hongkong to Liege * Belavia, Istanbul to Minsk * Adzerbaijan Airlines, Baku to Moscow (what is this doing over Belarus, the flight path seems very strange - AHY6735) * Air China, Frankfurt to Beijing What do you expect EU to do about airlines it doesn't control ?
- V-2 5y ago
  I don't know if the grandparent commenter is correct, but they quite clearly meant Belarussian flights over EU airspace, not the other way round (EU flights over Belarus, which is what you seem to be referring to).
  - Symbiote 5y ago
    Belavia themselves[1] say flights to Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Czechia, Latvia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, France and Lithuania are cancelled. That leaves Hungary, Cyprus and Estonia. There are news articles for all three saying bans are supported or in progress — different countries have different legal processes for doing this, and it can take a few more days. [1] https://en.belavia.by/news/ https://en.belavia.by/news/ or https://en.belavia.by/table/ https://en.belavia.by/table/
- kylehotchkiss 5y ago
  I was very curious about the Azerbaijan Airlines routing (the countries around there don't get along so their flight paths tend to reflect that - see flights coming/going from Armenia too) https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/AHY6735 https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/AHY6735 Looks like this one was just Baku to Minsk though, no controversy. Their Baku-Moscow route is AHY181

ddalex 5y ago

(looking on Flight Radar, blockade is gone now) Just out of curiosity, I checked now (2021-05-27 10:38 UTC) and not one flight over Belarus is an EU airline: * Aeroflot, MOSCOW to BELGRADE * Unmarked plane T7-HHH under San Marino registration * Belavia, Minsk to Belgrade * Fedex, Hongkong to Liege * Belavia, Istanbul to Minsk * Adzerbaijan Airlines, Baku to Moscow (what is this doing over Belarus, the flight path seems very strange - AHY6735) * Air China, Frankfurt to Beijing What do you expect EU to do about airlines it doesn't control ?

V-2 5y ago
I don't know if the grandparent commenter is correct, but they quite clearly meant Belarussian flights over EU airspace, not the other way round (EU flights over Belarus, which is what you seem to be referring to).
- Symbiote 5y ago
  Belavia themselves[1] say flights to Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Czechia, Latvia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, France and Lithuania are cancelled. That leaves Hungary, Cyprus and Estonia. There are news articles for all three saying bans are supported or in progress — different countries have different legal processes for doing this, and it can take a few more days. [1] https://en.belavia.by/news/ https://en.belavia.by/news/ or https://en.belavia.by/table/ https://en.belavia.by/table/
kylehotchkiss 5y ago
I was very curious about the Azerbaijan Airlines routing (the countries around there don't get along so their flight paths tend to reflect that - see flights coming/going from Armenia too) https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/AHY6735 https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/AHY6735 Looks like this one was just Baku to Minsk though, no controversy. Their Baku-Moscow route is AHY181