The national airline of Turkmenistan “Turkmenistan Airlines” announced on Saturday that regular flights between Ashgabat-Moscow-Ashgabat are canceled from December 30, 2024 to January 31, 2025″. The company did not provide a more detailed reason for such a decision.
The United Arab Emirates airline “flydubai” previously announced that flights between Dubai and Mineralnye Vody and Sochi in Russia are canceled from December 27 to January 3.
Kazakhstan’s “Qazaq Air” has canceled flights to Yekaterinburg until the end of January.
This week, the Israeli airline “El Al” also suspended flights to Moscow for a week.
It has already been reported that a passenger plane belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 of the 67 people on board. The media, citing sources, say that the plane near Grozny may have been hit by a Russian anti-aircraft missile. Air defense in the vicinity of Grozny at that time repelled an attack by Ukrainian drones.
Russian airports, including Moscow’s, are regularly shut down by Ukrainian drones.