Sky News: American Airlines suspends agreements with Aeroflot and S7

Sky News: American Airlines suspends agreements with Aeroflot and S7

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The American airline American Airlines, as part of sanctions against Russia due to its military operation in Ukraine, decided to suspend indefinitely the validity of agreements with Aeroflot and S7, Sky News reports.

“American Airlines has suspended its agreements with… Aeroflot for an indefinite period. She added that she also suspended the agreement with S7, ”RIA Novosti quotes the channel’s message.

Earlier it became known that within the framework of sanctions against the Russian Federation due to its military operation in Ukraine, the countries of the European Union and Canada closed their airspace to Russian aircraft, and Russia responded to such restrictions in a mirror-like manner.

Recall, on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an emergency appeal to the Russians and announced a special military operation in the Donbass. In his speech, he stated that “circumstances require decisive action from Russia” and stressed that “Russia will not allow Ukraine to have nuclear weapons.”

In response to Russia’s actions, Western countries (USA, Canada, European Union, Great Britain, Japan) announced new, tougher sanctions against the Russian Federation, including financial and economic ones.

In particular, Russian banks fell under the sanctions, including Sberbank, VTB, Novikombank, FC Otkritie and Sovcombank, and for a number of state-owned companies it was difficult to attract foreign capital.

Later, the EU countries and the United States agreed to disconnect Russian banks that fell under sanctions from the international system of interbank transactions and information exchange SWIFT. In addition, it was decided to freeze the assets of the Bank of Russia, which will create difficulties for its use of international reserves. EU countries also pledged to take steps to limit the sale of citizenship — the so-called “golden passports” that allow wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government to become citizens of EU states and gain access to their financial systems.

You can follow the chronicle of events around Ukraine on March 1 here.

Source: Rosbalt

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