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Russian airlines are smuggling aircraft parts from America and Europe to coinue their aircraft, according to Mehr News Agency.

Lee Walker, director of the Berkeley Risk and Security Laboratory, claimed that Russia was forced to take illegal routes to eer the aircraft after iernational sanctions from Ukraine.

The US Departme of Justice has reported that three people have violated export restrictions imposed on Russia to send aircraft parts.

According to the report, the Russian Foreign Ministry recely urged the United States to return its air boycott on the coury’s planes. Earlier it was reported that Russia was using Iran’s ability to reclaim its passenger aircraft.

Senior Russian and American officials met in the Saudi capital in late February about the bilateral relations and the Ukrainian crisis. The summit, which was attended by the foreign ministers of the two couries, was the highest level of talks between the two couries in rece years.