Ukraine

After Warsaw shot down 19 Russian drones over its territory with the support of NATO aircraft, additional security measures have been adopted by the civil aviation authorities. At the request of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command, a restricted zone has been active since Wednesday evening in the part of Warsaw...

According to the Reuters news agency, Poland announced on Wednesday that it had shot down Russian drones over its territory. The drones violated Polish airspace during a large-scale Russian attack on western Ukraine. Poland described the incursion as an "act of aggression". According to the Ukrainian air force, most of the country...

Kosice in Slovakia, Suceava in Romania, Lublin and Rzeszow in Poland and Chisinau in Moldova: the total closure of air traffic in Ukraine since the start of the war launched by Russia in 2022 is having an impact on Ukraine's border airports. Positive effects for these airports on the eastern borders...

An agreement was reached in Warsaw at the end of January as part of the Railway Direction Days event. The aim of the conference was to generate and rationalise joint investment in railways. The agreement covers all the countries in the Visegrad group (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic), as well as the Baltic States and...

The European air traffic control agency, Eurocontrol, recently published some edifying statistics on flight times between Europe and Asia, both before and after Russia's war in Ukraine. And this despite the fact that the European Union has banned Russian aircraft from flying over its territory and that Russia...

Some aviation experts speak of an average of 8%. Others are talking about 15%. In all cases, they are unanimously predicting an increase in air fares. Either through a traditional price increase (a trend that has been underway since January), or through the addition of a fuel surcharge. For example, the low-cost carrier AirAsia, which is very hostile to a...

Updated on 18 March "Ukraine will win". On 2 March, Ukraine's largest hotel group, Reikartz Hotel, clearly showed its support for the Russian invasion. With around sixty hotels in Kiev and some thirty towns across the country, the hotel group is bearing the full brunt of the war ravaging its country, having announced as early as...

After almost two weeks of war, have all business travellers and expatriates left Ukraine? Xavier Carn - Most companies have exfiltrated or advised their employees to leave Ukraine. At International SOS, we advised our members to leave the country a fortnight ago. The companies that...

The United Kingdom was the first to ban Russian aircraft from its airspace. It was followed over the last few days by Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and then France. Finally, on Sunday evening, the entire European Union, through the voice of its President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,...

They are now called the Donetsk Independent People's Republic and the Luhansk Independent People's Republic. The declaration of independence by these two republics was recognised by Vladimir Putin's government. This act initially paved the way for a "peace-building occupation" by Russian troops. But then...