However, the issue of security has not yet been finally resolved.
The first airport that can resume work in Ukraine The Ministry of Infrastructure is considering Lviv airport. As stated by the Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov, technically it takes up to two weeks to restore the operation of airports in Ukraine, but in practice this will be possible only with guaranteed security.
“We are considering Lviv Airport as the first airport. I hope that, as was the case with the Black Sea Grain Initiative, when we receive guaranteed security, guarantees primarily from international partners, from the UN, we will start, I hope,” he said at the Yalta European Strategy meeting.
According to the minister, the main obstacle to the resumption of civilian flights is security, not technical issues.
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We will remind you that the sky over Ukraine is closed for flights of civil aviation from the first day of the full-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation – February 24, 2022.
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