The European Commission: 21 russian airlines have been added to The European Commission air safety blacklist. They do not meet international safety standards.
Particularly, this list includes Aeroflot, Russia, Victory, etc. There are 117 companies included in the list overall.
"russia's Federal Air Transport Agency has allowed russian airlines to operate hundreds of foreign aircraft without a valid certificate of airworthiness," said Transport Commissioner Adina Valean.
This violates international aviation safety standards and threatens security directly.
The European Commission: The implemented actions are not another sanction against moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. It is just a technical and security reasons’s measure.
The European Union's Aviation Security Agency (EASA) has imposed restrictive measures against russia in connection with its military invasion of Ukraine.