The second most populous Ukrainian city of Kharkov can remain without an aviation message. This is stated in the appeal of the deputies of the City Council addressed to the Prime Minister of the Independent Vladimir Groisman. The corresponding document was adopted during the session on Wednesday, September 20, the official website of the mayor's office informs..

"According to the information of New Systems AM, which manages the Kharkov International Airport, the State Aviation Service of Ukraine from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which controls traffic safety in the European aviation area, received a draft bulletin that introduces restrictions in aviation movement in the Eastern part of Ukraine. In particular, flights within the Dnepropetrovsk region of flight information, including international airports Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye, are recognized as dangerous. It is noted in the circulation.

The mayor's office says that if this document is adopted, the air communication between Kharkiv and other countries will be terminated, and the city itself will be in aviation isolation.

"Slobozhanshchyna" (the historical name of the north-eastern territory of modern Ukraine and the southwestern part of the Chernozem area of ??Russia - Ed.. ) may become an unattractive region for foreign investors, and business trips of local business representatives will be significantly complicated, which will have a serious negative impact on the economic situation of the Central and Eastern parts of Ukraine, "Ukrainian deputies are convinced. They also noted that the consequences of the adoption of this document could be the cessation of the work of the Kharkiv airport and related enterprises, border and customs control points, which employ about 1,500. employees.

The Kharkov city council asks Grojsman to bring the decision of this question on the highest state level and to address to EASA with the request to not give a course to the document, having limited to operating interdictions for flights above a zone of carrying out of "antiterrorist operation" as in Kiev name the armed opposition in Donbass.

According to the local portal NewsRoom Kharkiv, in August 2017. The most popular air routes for Kharkov are Antalya, Istanbul, Kiev, Tel Aviv and Warsaw. In just eight months of this year, more than 537 thousand passengers used the services of the international airport "Kharkov".