To restore air service to Donetsk region after a five-year gap

To restore air service to Donetsk region after a five-year gap, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan toured Kramatorsk airport Saturday. With a 2.5 km landing strip, the airport currently works as a military airfield for the region’s provisional capital. “Following the President’s order, I inspected Kramatorsk airport – we must renovate it and resume regular operations. Like in Mariupol,” Omelyan wrote on Facebook. State aviation safety are cautious about allowing civilian flights to Mariupol, only 30 km west of the front line. For the Azov, one alternative is the airport in Berdyansk, Zaporizhia, 100 km west of the front line. Kramatorsk is 100 km north of the front line.