Ukrainian interceptors turned around our plane http://t.co/Khudl8Goho
— Dmitry Rogozin (@DRogozin) May 10, 2014Ukraine Scrambles Fighter Jets, Intercepts Airplane Carrying Russian Deputy Premier -- Zero Hedge
A few short hours ago, a Russian delegation which contained the deputy premier of Russia Dmitry Rogozin was flying back from Moldova's capital Chisinau following his visit to Tiraspol as part of May 9 celebrations, when Ukraine scrambled fighter jets to intercept the Yak-42 carrying the Russian vice premier and forced it to promptly land back in Moldova.
The reason why this is surprising is that Rogozin was well aware in advance of taking off that Ukraine had closed its airspace to the Russian delegation.
But the punchline is that while Rogozin managed to fly into Moldova over Romanian airspace, on his return the EU and NATO member country served him with a surprise - it followed in Ukraine's footsteps and blocked off its airspace to the Russian Deputy PM as well.
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My Comment: This could have ended up very badly. Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin's Twitter feed is here.