Latvia will not give flight permits for flights to May 9 events in Moscow / day

Serbian media first reported that Latvia and Lithuania have banned Serbian President Alexander Vučich’s airplane crossing the airspace on the way to Moscow, where Vučič is about to go to events on May 9. Lithuania and Poland have also banned their airspace crossing an airplane, which plans to travel to Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico on May 9 in the Russian capital.

Later, Estonia and Lithuania approved airspace closing airplanes leading the leaders of other countries to the so -called Victory Day celebration in Moscow. Lithuanian President Gitan Nauseda announced that for security reasons, Serbian and Slovak leaders crossed its airspace on the way to Moscow, but the Estonian Foreign Ministry announced that the Estonian airspace could not be used for any flights to and from May 9. Estonia has already banned VIP and Brazilian VIP flights to or from Moscow.

Now the Latvian MFA has also confirmed that Latvia will not issue permits for such flyovers. The specific list of countries refused is not included in the statement of the Latvian MFA, but Slovakia is mentioned, among other things, in the statement.

The Latvian MFA statement emphasizes that Latvia, together with the Allies and other international partners, honors the memory of all World War II victims on May 8, while protecting and contributing to fact -based historical truth about this war, but on May 9, Europe Day is celebrated for peace and unity in Europe.

The May 9 military parade organized by the Kremlin in Moscow is « the legitimization of Russian war propaganda and its authoritarian and aggressive regime », the MFA points out. « Russia uses Nazism to justify military aggression and atrocities against Ukraine and its nation today, while distorting history and trying to avoid the clear fact that Nazi Germany and the USSR’s Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols, as well as the invasion of both countries in Poland.

The ministry highlights that participation in the Kremlin’s propaganda event on May 9 is in conflict with the EU’s core values, but in the Latvian society « Valdis Crystal Skill, the praise of Russian propaganda and war crimes should not be supported and promoted, Russia is an aggressor and must be called international responsibility for aggression crime ».

The MFA points out that both Latvian and Slovak peoples have suffered from two totalitarian regimes – the military aggression of communism and Nazism. The end of World War II did not bring freedom and independence and Latvia lost its independence for the next 50 years, with the Soviet Union occupying the territory of Latvia, implementing the murders of Latvian people, deportations, repression and Russification. Latvia regained its independence only on May 4, 1990, and the crimes of totalitarian communism were still not condemned as Nazi crimes were once condemned, the ministry emphasizes.

Taking into account that Russia has been implementing a full -scale non -provoked war against its neighbors Ukraine and the Ukrainian nation for the fourth year, Latvia will not grant diplomatic transmission permits for flights that ensure participation in the May 9 event in Moscow, emphasizes the MFA.