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| Subject: Funny: Putin plane makes detour avoiding Poland Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:56 pm | |
| A plane carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Germany made a detour of about 500 km (300 miles) to avoid flying over NATO members Poland or the Baltic states, data from a flight tracker showed.
According to the FlightRadar24 website, a Russian government jet flying from Moscow to Hamburg on Thursday deviated from the direct route over Belarus and Poland, which was once a Soviet bloc state but joined the Western military alliance after the fall of communism.
Instead the Ilyushin with the registration number RA-96022 flew over the Baltic Sea, crossing on its way territory of neutral Finland and Sweden before entering the airspace of Denmark and Germany, both NATO members.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment, saying only that the president's security during trips was paramount.
"The (safety) measures which are taken are expedient measures," he told a conference call with reporters.
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