Premier instructs national air navigation service to tighten control over Russian planes' flights to Syria

"This morning, I instructed UkSATSE [Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise] to tighten control, together with EUROCONTROL, concerning flights of any Russian planes to Syria. Airspace to these planes has been fully closed over Ukrainian territory, and airspace over neutral waters is currently being controlled in a special way," Yatseniuk said at a joint press conference with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Bratislava on Thursday.