
Putin signs law to seize foreign aircraft as sanctions impact Russian aviation
Fox News
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law Monday that would give Russian airlines the ability to seize foreign-owned airplanes so they could be re-deployed for domestic flights.
An Aeroflot Russian Airlines Airbus A320 civil jet at Moscow-Sheremetyevo International Airport. (Photo by Leonid Faerberg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Russian President Vladimir Putin. ((Photo by ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)) A Rossiya Airlines passenger plane lands at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow on Sunday. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a measure to allow Russian airlines to seize foreign planes so they can be used for domestic flights. (REUTERS/Marina Lystseva )
The move is an attempt to circumvent Western sanctions that have resulted in multiple countries, including the United States, closing their airspace to Russian airliners.













