"Americans now believe that any advancement needs to be made in the Ukrainian direction, and then (you can) talk about air connections, although I think that would be a completely logical decision," said Uszakow, quoted by the Moscow Times portal.
After Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Europe and the US closed to Russian airlines airspace.
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Restoration of cruise flights. Marco Rubio “hearn nothing”
According to the Moscow Times, the restoration of flights was 1 of the topics of talks conducted in early April in the United States by Putin’s advisor, Kirilla Dmitriev.
The U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on the another hand, stated after Dmitryev's visit that he had “not heard anything” about plans to reconstruct direct flights between the States.
