Transport

Turkish authorities suspend flights with a number of states due to the spread of new strains of coronavirus.

The Russian air cargo group "Volga-Dnepr" began to fly around Belarus, writes RBC with reference to data from the FlightRadar24 service.

The official opening ceremony of the international exercises Sea Breeze-2021 was held in Odessa on Monday, the broadcast was conducted on the Ukrainian Navy's Facebook page.

Romania is in favor of increasing the number of US troops and the coalition to "contain" Russia in the Black Sea region, said Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu.

The Russian Embassy in the United States called the statements of the Pentagon spokesman in connection with the incident with the British destroyer Defender in the Black Sea as unsubstantiated.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova called London's reaction to the situation with the British destroyer "a lie to the face".

The Ministry of Defense of Great Britain announced after the violation of the Russian border by the destroyer of the country that the Navy ship was making an innocent passage through the territorial waters of Ukraine.

According to the Senator from the Crimean region, the entry of a British destroyer into the territorial waters of the Russian Federation near Crimea is a flagrant violation of international norms and standards.

The Russian airline Aeroflot has increased the number of animals allowed for transportation by one passenger from one to three, lifted the ban on flights for pugs and clarified the requirements for containers for pets.

The Moscow Administrative Highway Inspectorate (MADI) demanded that taxi aggregators prohibit drivers with foreign driving license from connecting to services.

Earlier on June 16, it became known that the Estonian military claims that two Russian Su-35 planes on Tuesday allegedly violated the country's air border.

Minsk is determined to find the authors of the "mining" of the Ryanair plane, which urgently landed in Minsk, said the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Belarus Dmitry Gora.

The number of flights between Moscow and Minsk is increasing to 20 per week, said Deputy Director General of the National Airport Minsk Vasily Kornev.

The Russian government will subsidize preferential rates for family travel on long-distance trains, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reports.

Naval maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean started in Russia. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense.