(ANSA) - MOSCOW, APRIL 3 - The Ukrainian government banned
all direct flights to Russia - even the non-scheduled ones,
already outlawed - following the visit paid to Moscow by the
presidential candidate Yuri Boiko and the president of the
political council of the party called ''Platform of opposition -
For life'' Viktor Medvedchuk.
The Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov made the
decision. The minister said that the two members of the
opposition ''used a loophole in the Ukrainian legislation'' to
take a direct flight to Moscow. He then added that the ministry
would change the legislation in order to ''make it impossible to
operate non-scheduled flights between Ukraine and the aggressor
country''. Avakov also said that the ban would not apply to
flights operated by international organizations such as the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the
United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC). Russian and Ukrainian media reported. (ANSA).
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