Finland and Estonia allowed the flight to three aircraft from Russia

Finland and Estonia, despite the ban, allowed three Russian aircraft to cross their aircraft on August 17, so that they would not fall into the thunderstorm. This was reported to RBC in the Federal Air Transport Agency.

Aircraft of the airlines "Russia", "Ural airlines" and "North Wind" operated flights to Kaliningrad and vice versa. Flying over neutral waters, they fell into a thunderstorm and were forced to enter the airspace of Finland and Estonia, the department said.

According to the Aviatorshchina telegram channel , the thunderstorm front for several minutes completely blocked the only corridor for the flight to Kaliningrad over the neutral waters of the Gulf of Finland. Estonia gave the board of the airline "Russia" permission to enter its own air space, and Finland - Finland - Finland. Russian planes were in the airspace of these countries from five to ten minutes.

The Federal Air Transport Agency thanked them for assistance.

In February 2022, the response to the full -scale military invasion of Russia to Ukraine, the European Union completely closed the aircraft for Russian aircraft.