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Ukraine notifies ICAO of unsafe Russian airspace for civilian flights
Safety Warning
Ukraine has formally notified the International Civil Aviation Organisation that Russian airspace is unsafe for civilian traffic due to increased military activity.
Ukraine has formally notified the International Civil Aviation Organisation that Russian airspace is unsafe for civilian traffic due to increased military activity.
Safety Warning
Ukraine’s formal notification to ICAO underscores the escalating risks in Russian airspace, which could lead to significant disruptions in international aviation operations and insurance markets.
Ukraine’s formal notification to ICAO underscores the escalating risks in Russian airspace, which could lead to significant disruptions in international aviation operations and insurance markets.
Official Warning
“We urge everyone to avoid it,” said Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, emphasising that Russian airspace is unsafe for civilian aviation due to increased military activity.
“We urge everyone to avoid it,” said Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, emphasising that Russian airspace is unsafe for civilian aviation due to increased military activity.
Ukraine formally warns airlines that Russian airspace is unsafe
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Ukraine has formally informed the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) that Russia’s airspace is unsafe for civilian traffic, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Wednesday.
“Ukraine has officially notified ICAO that the Russian airspace is not safe for civilian aviation because of increased military activity. We urge everyone to avoid it,” Sybiha said on X.
He said Russia had been “deliberately ignoring the existing threats” created by its all-out war against Ukraine, arguing that the risks had already resulted in several aviation incidents in recent years.
“This is our responsible decision to notify ICAO and all airlines, and governments to take caution — even if Russia refuses to fulfill its responsibility to inform them. We want to prevent unintended incidents,” Sybiha said.
The formal notification came a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned airlines, insurers and businesses using Russian main airports that the country’s airspace is now becoming increasingly dangerous as Kyiv expands its long-range drone operations.
“Today we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone who still uses key Russian airports: Russian skies are becoming completely dangerous,” Zelenskyy said on Tuesday.
Ukraine does not threaten civilian aviation, Zelenskyy insisted, while warning that the growing scale of Ukrainian drone operations inside Russia meant the risks could no longer be ignored.
He said Russian airspace would “effectively be closing” as the consequences of Moscow’s war increasingly returned to Russian territory.
Few hours after Zelenskyy’s statement, a few flights between Turkey and Moscow were disrupted overnight.
Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines cancelled 12 flights to and from Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport overnight on Wednesday, according to airport data.
A Pegasus flight from Antalya to Moscow was also diverted because of security concerns in Russian airspace, according to Turkish media reports.
Turkish Airlines, the country’s flagship carrier, mostly kept its Moscow services running, although it cancelled two departures and two arrivals from and to Istanbul.
Ukraine’s airspace has been closed to civilian aviation since 24 February 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Russian civilian aviation, by contrast, has continued operating throughout the war, despite increasingly frequent disruptions and temporary airport closures during Ukrainian drone attacks.
Despite the risks, Russian airspace still carries significant international passenger traffic.
European and US carriers stopped flying over Russia following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Major airlines including Emirates, Turkish Airlines, Air India, Etihad and Qatar Airways, as well as several Chinese carriers, continue to fly to or through the country.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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