The data of the online tracking service that the agency gives, indicate that the aircraft with Matvienko flew over Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea, arrived in Geneva through Italy and flew to Moscow through the airspace of France and Italy.
According to Bloomberg interlocutors in Rome, Italy allowed the plane with Matvienko to enter its airspace, since the Switzerland government asked her about this. After that, the Italian government allegedly consulted with the France authorities, who received a similar request, after which they provided permission.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris did not immediately respond to a request for a comment from the agency.
The speaker of the Switzerland Foreign Ministry refused to comment on the situation with the Matvienko aircraft, but stated that the government could allow excluding an exception from a local prohibition of a trip described in sanctions in detail, “especially if a person travels to participate in the international conference.” He noted that although the Swiss airspace is closed to Russian aircraft, “there are exceptions, in particular, for flights carried out for humanitarian, medical or diplomatic purposes.”
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On July 27, Matvienko arrived in Switzerland to participate in the sixth World Conference of the Parliament speakers and other events of the Inter -Parliamentary Union, the Russian propaganda agency TASS wrote.
According to the propagandists, the Russian delegation included the Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachov, Chairman of the Committee of the Council for Science, Education and Culture of Lilia Gumerova, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Andrei Lenisov, Deputy Head of the State Duma, Peter Tolstoy, as well as the head of the Duma Committee Leonid Slutsky.
From the rostrum in Geneva, Matvienko once again spread a number of propaganda anti -Ukrainian statements and invited foreign colleagues to come to the Donbass to personally see the “crimes of the Kyiv regime”, the video published the Russian Rain Channel.
Switzerland joined the sanctions against Russia introduced by the European Union, the list contains Matvienko. However, as the Radio Liberty noted, the country does not limit the entry of international organizations to its territory, whose headquarters are located in Switzerland.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine noted that the place of Matvienko is not at international conferences, but at the dock.
On July 30, during the performance of Matvienko in Geneva, dozens of delegates left the hall, arranging her demarche.
