Assets are frozen not seized. Big difference. Also many of these assets are registered in offshore corporations based in fiscal havens upon which no sanctions are imposed and where the US, UK and EU have no juridiction. This type of article is just to please the warmongering crowds. There are so many aviation FBOs around the world which will be more than happy to take care of these jets as well as the yachts.

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These aircrafts are not seized but frozen. It means they still belong to their owners. Once the sanctions lifted the aircrafts return to their rightful owners. Regarding maintenance i am not worried, business jet manufacturers want to keep their clients happy and will make all the necessary efforts to supply maintenance staff and parts through their foreign dealerships where ever are the jets grounded. Harbouring countries will be happy to charge parking fees and maintenance to their guests. So many countries are not enforcing these sanctions and will be more than happy to be “middlemen” in any lucrative deals. During the Falkland war, even after sanctions were imposed on Argentina, French arm manufacturers kept supplying weapons to Argentina via Brazil. The same was done for Saddam Hussein when he invaded Koweit. Business is business. Nobody knows but 2 huge oil and gaz deals were signed by France and Germany with Russia while the war is going on in Ukraine. The gaz flows throug

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English is my third language. If I use French, German or Spanish you may have some difficulties to understand and correct my mistakes. Anyway thanks for the tip.

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It’s funny how the conspiracy theorists of yesterday become the truth revealers of today.

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If you look at the airline traffic between Europe and the Far-East and flying over Russian territory at 1:30 pm today, you ‘ll see the enormous amounts of Chinese, UAE, Far-Eastern and Russian airlines. I have a screen shot which doesn’t lie. The hypocrisy of this situation shows well when you see DHL cargo plane flying across Russia. DHL is a German logistics company but they have a contract with Aviastar with Russian Tupolev registered aircrafts. So no sanctions for them. Flight 4B9601 is flying over Russia east bound at this time. For insurance purpose they won’t fly over Ukraine but pass north or south of the border.

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Space X has no contract with the European Space Agency.

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MH17 may have been shot down by an Ukrainian missile. You may have missed the latest results of the investigation. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10550567/Buk-missile-type-used-shoot-MH17-spotted-Ukraine.html The constructor of the BUK missile confirmed MH17 was shot down by an older model BUK 1 operational in Ukraine. Russia does not have anymore this type of missile. They used the BUK 2 at the time of the accident. Photos of BUK 1 in Ukraine have resurfaced. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35706048

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Maybe more if you include the abstentions: Algeria Angola Armenia Bangladesh Bolivia Burundi Central African Republic China Congo Cuba El Salvador Equatorial Guinea India Iran Iraq Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lao People’s Democratic Republic Madagascar Mali Mongolia Mozambique Namibia Nicaragua Pakistan Senegal South Africa South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Tajikistan Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Viet Nam Zimbabwe. Countries which supported Russia: Belarus Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Eritrea Russian Federation Syrian Arab Republic.

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They can fly to all destinations east of the European Union to The Behring Strait. It's about 2/3 of the world population with the most industrious nations located in the Mumbai-Seoul_Singapore triangle. Remember Turkey a NATO ally did not close its skies to Russian airlines so Africa is direct for Russian airlines. Just check Radar24 map or flight aware and you'll see the density of Russian flights east of Europe while European flights for the Far-East are grounded or have to re-route by Anchorage adding 2.5 hours. At today's jet fuel price, it's not good.

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It's not a problem. Air China, China Eastern, Hainan Airlines or any far-eastern airlines will repatriate them for free via Beijing, Shanghai or Chengdu.

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