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A Ryanair aircraft about to land at Vilnius airport was diverted to Warsaw in Poland on Thursday since of GPS disturbance, Lithuania's air navigation authority said on Friday. Estonia and Finland in 2015 blamed Russia for jamming GPS navigation devices in the region's airspace. Russia has rejected interfering with interaction and satellite networks. The majority of modern airliners have a variety of sensors and sources to determine their positioning, in addition to GPS, implying they can fly if there is interference. The Boeing 737 MAX 8-200, from London's Luton airport, was approaching Vilnius airport runway for landing, decreasing to an...

Russia prepared 'acts of terrorism' in the air versus Poland and other countries, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated on Wednesday after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Warsaw. Security officials have said that parcels that took off at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to set off surges on freight flights to the United States. The explosions occurred in depots in Britain, Germany and Poland in July. Russia has denied involvement in the occurrences and Tusk did not mention them specifically. The most recent information can validate the validity of fears...

Oil shipping rates extended their rally on expectations of a tightening up in worldwide tanker supply from wider U.S. sanctions on Russia's fleet and traders' need for ships to pack Middle East oil for Asia, market sources stated on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Shell reserved three Very Large Crude Carriers, efficient in carrying up to 2 million barrels of oil, at the rate of Worldscale 70 to load Middle East crude in early February and Chinese refiner Shenghong Petrochemical booked two VLCCs for the exact same loading duration at the same rate, a. shipbroker stated. Worldscale is an industry tool to...

Pulkovo airport in Russia's. St Petersburg has actually stopped operations due to heavy snowfall, the. airport stated on Sunday. At around 0830 regional time (0530 GMT) the airport revealed. it was stopping all flights and prepared to resume operations. quickly. Nevertheless, this has been held off till weather condition. conditions enhance. Artyom Korenyako, a spokesperson for the national aviation. watchdog Rosaviatsia, composed in his Telegram account that since. 1235 regional time 33 aircrafts bound for St Petersburg had actually been. redirected to alternate airports, primarily in Moscow. Mash Telegram channel published a video showing what it. stated was one of...

The European Union Aviation Safety Firm issued a brand-new alert on Thursday caution nonEuropean providers not to fly within western Russia airspace due to the risk of being accidentally targeted by its airdefence systems. Russia's civil air travel authority, Rosaviatsiya, denounced the alert as a brand-new imposition of sanctions on Russian companies and an attempt to enable Western airlines to recover lost markets. EASA said the crash last month in Kazakhstan of an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft, after Russian air defences fired against Ukrainian drones, showed the high threat at play. At least 38 people passed away in the crash. The...

The European Union Air Travel Security Agency released a new alert on Thursday caution nonEuropean providers not to fly within western Russia airspace due to the threat of being unintentionally targeted by its air defence systems. EASA stated the crash last month in Kazakhstan of an Azerbaijan Airlines airplane, after Russian air defences fired against Ukrainian drones, showed the high risk at play. At least 38 people passed away in the crash. The continuous dispute following the Russian invasion of Ukraine presents the danger of civil airplane being accidentally targeted in the airspace of the Russian Federation due to possible...

Russian airline company Utair made an emergency situation landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport on Tuesday, Russia's RIA news company reported. The Boeing 737 airplane with 173 guests on board was flying from St Petersburg to Samarkand in Uzbekistan however landed securely at Vnukovo, RIA reported. TASS news company reported that Utair stated the emergency situation landing was due to a stabiliser malfunction. Utair and Vnukovo airport did not immediately react to Reuters' requests for comment. RIA pointed out the airline as stating all guests and team were unscathed. Russia presently does not have sufficient aircrafts to fulfill need for flight,...

A Russian drone attacked a civilian guest bus in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson on Monday, killing at least someone and hurting 9 more, the Kherson regional guv stated. The bus with shattered windows and pools of blood on its flooring could be seen on a video from the website, shared by the guv together with his statement on Telegram. A 49-year-old male was killed, the regional prosecutor's. office stated. Civilians in Kherson region, which Russian forces partially. inhabit, and its capital constantly come under Russian drone. attacks. Regional authorities report casualties from such strikes. on an almost daily basis....

Flight records for the aircraft made by Brazil's Embraer that crashed last week in Kazakhstan are headed to the South American nation so the data can be drawn out, the Brazilian Flying force said in a declaration on Monday. Information from the cockpit voice and flight data recorder will be processed in a laboratory run by Brazilian aeronautical private investigators in the capital Brasilia, in a process that will be kept track of by agents from Kazakhstan, Russia and Azerbaijan, according to the statement. The data will then be sent to private investigators in Kazakhstan. On Sunday, Azerbaijan commemorated the...

The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has actually not verified these stories and does not guarantee their accuracy. Headings - 'Social worth' might be offered more weight in deciding UK state contracts - EU prepares hot weather 'tension test' on railways and power grids - Russian smugglers import luxury cars from Europe in spite of sanctions Introduction - The British government is thinking about shocking public procurement guidelines to offer higher weight to social worth when selecting personal contractors under strategies that would enable more social enterprises to bid for state work. - Trains and...

Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, for a awful incident which happened in Russian airspace including an Azerbaijan Airlines guest aircraft that crashed on Wednesday. Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from southern Russia where Ukrainian drones were reported to be assaulting numerous cities. A minimum of 38 individuals were killed while 29 survived. ( President) Vladimir Putin apologised for the terrible incident that happened in Russian airspace and once again revealed his deep and sincere condolences to the families...

A guest jet operated by Azerbaijan Airlines crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, after diverting from an area of southern Russia where Moscow has actually consistently utilized air defence systems against Ukrainian attack drones. At least 38 people were killed while 29 endured. Here is what we know so far: WHAT HAPPENED? Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 from Azerbaijan's capital Baku flew numerous miles off its arranged route to Grozny, in Russia's southern Chechnya region, and crashed on the opposite coast of the Caspian Sea around 3 km (1.8 miles) from Aktau in Kazakhstan. It is not...

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia was prepared to offer gas to Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, however needed logistical support from Moldova to make that occur. Vadim Krasnoselsky, the leader of the separatist enclave, said on Wednesday that he expected Transdniestria to get Russian gas once again soon to satisfy its requirements. 10s of thousands of people there have lacked gas or winter season heating since Jan. 1, when Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM suspended gas exports to the area, pointing out an unpaid Moldovan debt of $709 million that Chisinau does not identify as valid. Moscow blames the suspension of...

Finland's customizeds workplace stated on Thursday it had no grounds to pursue a criminal examination versus the team of the Eagle S oil tanker over the ship's Russian fuel cargo. Finnish cops last month took the tanker and stated they suspected the vessel had actually harmed a. Finnish-Estonian power line and four telecoms cable televisions by dragging its anchor throughout the seabed. The customs workplace has separately seized the freight of. unleaded gas and diesel, and repeated on Thursday that. these are classified as items subject to sanctions against. Russia. However as the ship went into Finnish territorial waters at....

Team on board an oil tanker implicated of undermining undersea power and interactions cable televisions in the Baltic Sea were poised to cut other cable televisions and pipelines when Finnish authorities boarded the vessel last month, the head of the Finnish examination said. Baltic Sea nations are on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022. Leaders of the NATO member states around the Baltic Sea are set to fulfill in Helsinki on Tuesday to talk about the alliance's response to the threat. On Dec. 26, Finnish authorities...

Almost 500,000 metric tons of Russian oil items are trapped on tankers hit by U.S. sanctions, LSEG information revealed on Wednesday. On Jan. 10, new Russia-related sanctions targeted more than 180 vessels and insurance companies, adding to the impact of comparable constraints enforced by UK and Europe Union. The vessels under the most recent U.S. sanctions include nine tankers that packed oil items at Russian Baltic and Black Sea ports in December and January. Four of them - Cup, Aquatica, Turaco and Onyx - are carrying in overall around 280,000 lots of fuel oil, predestined for India, Turkey and Singapore,...

The Kremlin stated on Wednesday that Russia's concentrate on the new U.S. sanctions on the oil sector was to minimise their effect however that nothing was ruled out in relation to a possible action from Moscow. We are carefully evaluating the circumstance, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov stated. The point is to take those measures that would minimise the repercussions of these unlawful procedures which would best serve the interests of our nation, to start with, and our companies. When asked particularly about a possible Russian reaction to the U.S. sanctions, Peskov stated: Nothing can be ruled out. Whatever is best...

Upgrades to increase the capacity for oil deliveries to the Czech Republic by means of the TAL pipeline are total, ending the country's requirement to import Russian crude, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Tuesday. The Czech Republic has actually worked to wean itself off Russian oil and gas considering that Russia's intrusion of Ukraine in 2022. Currently the country had no direct contracts with Russian gas suppliers. Now the TAL pipeline has the capability to fulfill all of its oil demand, it need no longer depend on the Druzhba pipeline from the east, which previously delivered half of its...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has turned down a Ukrainian invitation to check out Kyiv today to go over gas transit deals, Russia's TASS news firm said on Tuesday, mentioning a Slovak legislator, amid a spat over the end of Russian gas shipments. Russia's gas flows to Europe ended at the start of the year after the expiration of a transit arrangement between Kyiv and Moscow. Ukraine declined to extend the deal, seeking to stop energy revenue going to Moscow to fund its nearly three-year intrusion. Fico says the relocation has damaged Slovakia's economy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday...

European nations need to be prepared to deal with more events in the Baltic Sea following the current damage to undersea facilities, leaders of NATO nations in the area said on Tuesday ahead of a security meeting in Helsinki. Baltic Sea nations are on high alert after a string of power cable television, telecom link and gas pipeline outages in the wake of Russia's intrusion of Ukraine in February 2022, and are going over an increased NATO existence. Some 2,000 ships are crossing the Baltic Sea every day, making it challenging to monitor all of it, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics...

Team on board an oil tanker accused of undermining undersea power and communications cable televisions in the Baltic Sea were poised to cut other cables and pipelines when Finnish authorities boarded the vessel last month, the head of the Finnish examination stated. Baltic Sea countries are on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline blackouts because Russia got into Ukraine in 2022. Leaders of the NATO member states around the Baltic Sea are set to meet in Helsinki on Tuesday to go over the alliance's response to the threat. On Dec. 26, Finnish authorities...

Recognizing suspect ships and limiting their activities is the most effective method to protect important undersea facilities, European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen informed Reuters on Monday. Baltic Sea nations are on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline blackouts in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The NATO military alliance, of which Finland is now a. member, has stated it will improve its presence in the region. Virkkunen, who will participate in a Baltic Sea NATO members. conference in Helsinki on Tuesday, is the EU Commission's brand-new. executive vice-president...

Robert Fico, the Slovak prime minister, invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to meet him for gas transit talks after a dispute over Kyiv’s decision to stop Russian gas deliveries. Ukraine stopped the gas flow to Europe in January after the transit agreement was terminated between Kyiv, Ukraine and Moscow. The goal was to stop the energy revenues going to Moscow for funding its almost three-year long invasion. Fico claims that the decision has caused Slovakia, which borders Ukraine to suffer from higher gas prices as well as the loss of transit fees for gas to be transported further into Europe....

Russian energy giant Gazprom plans to cut personnel numbers at its central office in St. Petersburg, a company spokesperson said on Monday, as the company faces serious headwinds from the loss of its markets in Europe. State news firm TASS cited a media outlet called 47news as saying that Gazprom's head Alexei Miller was alerted in a letter about strategies to cut the central office workforce by around 40%, to 2,500 from 4,100. Approached , the company spokesperson validated the report. Gazprom's overall headcount stands at 498,000. It sustained an annual loss of practically $7 billion in 2023, its very...