An Aeroflot aircraft on which board is the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at the time of writing this news in the airspace of Romania, with destination to Chisinau, where Russian official will attend the investiture of the new president of the Republic, told HotNews.ro sources in Chisinau.

Rogozin is on the list of Russian officials against whom the EU imposed sanctions, and among them is also banned the entering of the airspace.

Rogozin was invited to the inauguration ceremony of President Igor Dodon by the Presidential Administration from Chisinau. He cannot come to Chisinau on the shortest route via Ukraine because the Ukrainian authorities have banned Aeroflot aircrafts in their airspace due to the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia.

On the guest list at Dodon inuguration can be found the Hungarian deputy PM Zsolt Semjen and Belarusian Deputy PM Mikhail Rusyi, according to a leader of the Socialist Party (led so far by Dodon), quoted by Radio Free Europe.

The sanctions were imposed in March 2014, and Dmitry Rogozin was included in the list of Russian citizens who are subject to sanctions in May 2014. "All these sanctions are not worth a single speck of sand in the Crimean land, who returned to Russia" Rogozin reacted at that time, in a message on his Twitter account.

The aircraft that transports the Hungarian Deputy PM to Chisinau was returned to Budapest because of fog in the Moldovan capital.

Source: Hotnews.ro