While the blue-fingered dictator swears through the pocket media that he's a "didn't leave you in the lurch." BELPOL has received information about the complete collapse of the once quite "living"Grodno" airportwhich has not actually been used for its intended purpose for almost 3 years.
Here are some specific figures - in 2020 Grodno Airport served about 10,000 passengersand in 2021 - about 5,000and in 2022 and 2023. totaling about 150 and 100 passengers, respectively. Flight performance (even chartered ones) in 2024 from said airport is not planned.
Over the past 4 years, the airport's cumulative losses have amounted to RUB 8 million 700 thousandand the number of its personnel decreased by 1.5 times.
Officials of the aviation department of the Ministry of Transport explain this situation by the fact that "Covida Consequences."then "not very good runway conditions.". But none of this is true. Grodno Airport has valid airfield and terminal certificates of airworthiness, as well as the ability to accept most types of both passenger and cargo aircraft.
The real reason for the airport's inaction - allegedly "not operating", according to Lukashenko, and "useful for our economy" international sanctionsand imposed after the pirate hijacking of a Ryanair airplane with journalist Roman Protasevich on board by regime oprichniki in May 2021.
BELPOL continues to monitor the situation.
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