The Foreign Ministry of the aggressor country of russia said that it proposed to the United States to restore direct air service between the two countries during the latest round of consultations with Washington.
This is reported by the American publication ABC News.
On the eve, russian and American diplomats met in Istanbul to discuss the normalization of the work of their embassies, whose activities have been paralyzed by numerous rounds of expulsions of diplomats in previous years.
The russian foreign ministry described the talks as "substantive and businesslike" and noted in its statement that "joint steps were agreed to ensure unhindered financing of the activities of diplomatic missions of russia and the United States on a mutual basis and the creation of appropriate conditions for diplomats to perform their official duties."
The ministry said that it also proposed to the United States "to consider the possibility of restoring direct air service." It did not provide any details or a possible timeframe. The US side has not publicly commented on the russian proposal.
The US and a number of other Western countries have suspended air traffic with russia as part of a series of sanctions imposed on Moscow after it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the issue of Ukraine would not be raised at a meeting between US and Russian representatives in Istanbul.
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