Ben Katz
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first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Sep
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Definitely not the latter.
Ukraine has been very clear that it has no intention of targeting civilian aircraft or civilian lives really.
But what they are very much planning to do and have really already started is firing so many drones into Russian airspace that it effectively brings to a close Russian airspace.
Just makes it untenable for any foreign airline or even domestic airline to operate in that space.
What Ukraine is saying, what President Zelensky is very clear on, is if there is any catastrophe, if there are any civilian lives lost, that that blame would lay on the feet of the Russian military and the Russian authorities by their decision not to respond, as is required by Global Aviation Convention, to formally close airspace.
But the one thing is clear: the risk to civil aviation, the risk of another catastrophic incident as
In an aircraft being shot out of the sky is increasing.
And it has been increasing over the last few months.
We've reviewed data from the last two or three months from Ukraine that shows that the amount of airstrikes, the sheer number of drones that they've been firing into Russian airspace, has exponentially increased.
We're looking now at days where there are up to a thousand drones that get fired to the areas around Moscow, to St.
Petersburg, to Sochi in the south.
This is causing massive disruption already.
So while Russia has refrained from issuing what's called a formal airspace closure, what they are doing is shuttering their airports.
Closing an airspace is a is a massive move for any country.
It typically takes a long time to convince airlines that it's safe again to effectively fly back.
And aviation, as you say, is a is a massive part.
It's a really critical part of Russia's economy.
It's a massive country.
It's required for travel, but it's also required to keep open those links to places like Dubai in the in the Middle East, China to Turkey, the countries that have maintained those airlinks.
If that starts to get disrupted, you know, it can have those kind of knock-on impacts.
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