Ukraine closed the sky over the Black Sea. What will run?
This was reported to journalists by the representative of the Ukrainian Air Force Command, Dmitry Strutsky.
According to him, the “flight test test” will be held in the Kherson region, it will last on November 4 inclusive.
The last time the Ukrainian military blocked the sky over the water area of the Black Mora in December last year, when they conducted test launches of missiles of the C-300 anti-aircraft complex.
Situation for RIA News commented the chief editor of the magazine "National Defense" Igor Korotchenko.
The Russian expert noted that the exercises announced by Ukraine create a “dangerous provocative situation”, because Ukrainian air defense weapons have “expired test periods, they are not being modernized”.
According to Korotchenko, the result of such events can be downed aircraft.
He added that the closure of the airspace over the Black Sea is a provocative step, since the air border of Russia passes there.
The expert recalled that in the 2004 year, the Ukrainian air defense forces shot down a passenger Tu-154, which was moving from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk, during the exercise, and in the 2014 year, they shot down the Malaysian Boeing MH17.
Such tests represent a risk for all aircraft that follow in the airspace of Ukraine, he added.
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