Airbus has questions about the safety of air travel in Russia Russian airlines are running out of spare parts for aircraft maintenance, writes The Wall Street Journal. Countries where the liners used to undergo maintenance refuse to work with Russian companies due to sanctions, and carriers have not had legal access to spare parts since the beginning of the war. Concern about the safety of flights by Russian airlines was expressed, among other things, by the CEO of Airbus. Details. Aircraft maintenance, which was done by foreign companies before the war, is now carried out by Russian companies. They, according to the WSJ, are running out of spare parts. In addition, airlines have lost access to online troubleshooting documentation provided by manufacturers. Also, specialists cannot update the software necessary for the safe operation of modern aircraft. 
Previously, maintenance of Russian aircraft was carried out by specialists in other countries, including China. However, for fear of being subject to restrictions from Airbus and Boeing, Chinese companies have refused to work with Russia. After that, Russian carriers began to turn to companies in Iran and Turkey. However, in March, the Turkish portal AirportHaber reported that the country’s Ministry of Customs and Trade had banned servicing Russian aircraft. According to WSJ estimates, in 2022, about 170 Airbus and Boeing aircraft of Russian airlines were required to undergo maintenance “C”, which is carried out once every two years, another 55 aircraft were required to undergo a deeper maintenance “D”, which is carried out every six years. ten years. In 2023, 159 liners approached the service life “C”, 85 – “D”. WSJ notes that back in February, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury expressed concern about the performance of aircraft used by Russian carriers. According to him, the company is aware of cases when the liners lack parts. In September 2022, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) reported problems with flight safety in Russia. At the same time, an Airbus spokesman in a conversation with WSJ emphasized that Russian airlines have no legal way to obtain spare parts or documentation: the company refuses even to work with partners in other countries if they provide Russian carriers with access to products. In December 2022, Aeroflot CEO Sergei Aleksandrovsky said in an interview with RBC that the stocks of some consumables and spare parts would last for two months, while others could last for six months. Context. Boeing and Airbus aircraft make up about 77% of the entire Russian fleet. After the start of the war, these companies refused to serve liners from Russia. In addition, in March 2022, the authorities of Bermuda, where most of the aircraft of Russian airlines were registered, suspended the airworthiness certificates of these liners. The aircraft were transferred to Russian jurisdiction, despite the fact that many aircraft were leased and the lessors demanded the return of the aircraft. Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev later admitted that Russia “took someone else’s property”, so the planes would not be able to be serviced abroad and even leave Russia. In August last year, Reuters reported that Russian airlines began to disassemble some liners for spare parts to repair other aircraft. According to Kompromat 2.0 @kompr
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Spain demands to stop pumping Russian oil off the coast of Ceuta Russian oil is pumped from tanker to tanker off the Spanish coast. Madrid demands to stop this: pumping is dangerous for the environment and is probably being done to circumvent sanctions. Spain is tightening the laws and has already applied to the International Maritime Organization. The scheme, which Madrid is outraged by, works like this: oil is sent in tankers from the Gulf of Finland to Ceuta – there these ships (usually under the flag of Panama or Liberia) pump the delivered oil to larger-capacity supertankers. After loading, the latter are sent to Asia, skirting the African continent. Details – in the material of our correspondent from Madrid. According to DW Kompromat 2.0 @kompr
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Volodymyr Yatsenko, co-founder of the Ukrainian Monobanka, promised to pay 20 million hryvnias to anyone who can land a drone with Ukrainian symbols on Red Square in Moscow on May 9. “I hope this amount will be fairly divided between the manufacturer and military operators who will successfully complete the task and go to improve the UAV,” Yatsenko wrote. – In order to avoid misunderstandings, the wings should be the Ukrainian slogan, such as “Glory to Ukraine”, “Glory to the Heroes”, etc.” He himself also intends to take part in the attempt, but will participate “out of competition”. Recall that last May 9, the FSO disrupted the action of artist Danil Tkachenko to fill Red Square with yellow-blue smoke. The captured friend of Tkachenko, who had nothing to do with the action, Grigory Mumrikov, eventually received a year and a half in prison. According to SOTA Compromising 2.0 @kompr
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