Lukashenko oligarch's jet continues to fly to EU and Britain after Russian attack

MYKHAILO TKACH, IRYNA BALACHUK - FRIDAY, 1 APRIL 2022, 16:09

An Embraer private jet used by Nikolai Vorobey, a close associate of self-proclaimed Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, flew from Istanbul to London on 1 April.

Source: public online radar

Details: On this plane, Viktor Medvedchuk's associate, Taras Kozak, fled Ukraine a year ago on 24 February.

On the first day of the war, 24 February, the plane flew from Moscow to London and then back to Moscow in one day. And on 26 February, it flew from Moscow to Geneva and has still not returned to Russia.

Since 24 February, the plane has been to London four times, visited Geneva four times, visited Nice once, Cairo twice, Dubai once, and stopped in Istanbul five times. 

On 29 March, the plane left Nice for the Egyptian capital Cairo and flew to Dubai on the same day.

On 27 March, the aircraft took off from Geneva, Switzerland, visited Cairo and Istanbul, and flew to Nice.

And on 25 March, the aircraft flew from Istanbul to London and landed in Geneva.

Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the plane has flown regularly to the EU and the UK. And it is now located in Istanbul rather than Moscow.

Taras Kozak, a Ukrainian member of parliament and one of Victor Medvedchuk's closest associates, used the plane several times with Vorobey's managers and Medvedchuk's family members before he fled Ukraine and after his plane was sanctioned by the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.

The editorial board of Ukrainska Pravda is working to find out exactly who is using the plane at the moment and whether Medvedchuk and Kazak family members or Kozak personally are flying on it.

Nikolai Vorobey is a Belarusian oligarch against whom the European Union imposed sanctions in December 2020 in connection with the fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus in 2020 because of his close ties with Alexander Lukashenko's regime.