Russia has lost 76 passenger airliners due to sanctions
Foreign companies simply arrested their aircraft, which Russia leased and refused to return
Russia has lost 76 passenger planes due to sanctions, Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev said.
"We were taken by surprise by the decision to take the planes, in total we lost 76 passenger ships that were in technical parking lots, serviced abroad or were about to make some flights. They were simply arrested," the minister said.
At the moment, according to Savelyev, Russia has 1167 passenger airliners.
In March 2022, Savelyev said that Russian air carriers had transferred almost 800 aircraft to the Russian register.
Following Russia's attack on Ukraine and sanctions imposed by Western countries, foreign lessors – companies that lease aircraft – demanded that they be returned from Russian territory.
In response, the Russian authorities tightened the return procedure: now it is possible only by the decision of a special government commission.
At the end of March last year, the head of the Russian Ministry of Transport said that the government should decide on the purchase of more than 500 aircraft from foreign lessors worth $20 billion.
Background. As a reminder, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine filed two lawsuits with the HACCU to recover assets against the Volga-Dnepr Group and the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.
In particular, as part of the lawsuit against Volga-Dnepr, Ukraine plans to recover six D-18T Series 3 aircraft engines for AN-124-100 Ruslan aircraft. Another lawsuit concerns the Belarusian Ministry of Defense, which is planning to take away one aircraft engine and an air starter.
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