Belarus has Intercepted a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius

old_aussie

Belarus has sparked international outrage by intercepting a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend.

The EU and free world will not be happy with this.

Belarus's strongman President Alexander Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23.

Putin is backing his ally Belarus.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/parents-of-detained-belarusian-journalist-issue-plea-as-russia-blocks-airlines-for-avoiding-ally-s-airspace


Mod - there is a fairly extensive thread in the Aviation forum on this topic already however posts about general politics are not permitted in it
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058188257

For this reason this thread can stay open and the diverting of the flight, as well as the arrest of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega can be discussed here. Stay on topic though, no generalizations or whataboutery

Recliner

old_aussie wrote: »

Belarus has sparked international outrage by intercepting a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend.

The EU and free world will not be happy with this.

Belarus's strongman President Alexander Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23.

Putin backing it's ally Belarus.

Just to say, you do realise this has been reported and much discussed already.

Not new news.

tomtucker81

old_aussie wrote: »

Belarus has sparked international outrage by intercepting a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend.

The EU and free world will not be happy with this.

Belarus's strongman President Alexander Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23.

Putin is backing his ally Belarus.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/parents-of-detained-belarusian-journalist-issue-plea-as-russia-blocks-airlines-for-avoiding-ally-s-airspace

Did this not happen about 4 days ago? The Eu has already banned flights from Belarus from its airspace and international carriers are now avoiding Belarusian airapace and not flying to the country

Junkyard Tom

Europe needs to get its **** together on some sort of security/defence pact and Ireland should be in it.

old_aussie

Searched Boards for Ryanair, found no results for this.

riffmongous

Not again, the absolute cheek of them

For Forks Sake

Have I gone back in time again?

riffmongous

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Have I gone back in time again?

Again?

I hope you remember what it was you're supposed to change this time round

riffmongous

riffmongous wrote: »

Not again, the absolute cheek of them

Typical MOL to flout EU directives and break the ban

riffmongous

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Typical MOL to flout EU directives and break the ban

Too cheap to fly round

mcmoustache

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Europe needs to get its **** together on some sort of security/defence pact and Ireland should be in it.

Europe needs to understand that they're being attacked in the first place. There's also the small problem of certain current and former European leaders being already in the pocket of the Russians.

TheValeyard

riffmongous wrote: »

Again?

I hope you remember what it was you're supposed to change this time round

He cant. We're stuck in a loop.

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