{"id":245248,"date":"2025-07-07T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245248\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:34:08","slug":"putin-fires-transport-minister-after-ukraine-cripples-russian-air-traffic-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245248\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin fires transport minister after Ukraine cripples Russian air traffic \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currenttime.tv\/a\/rossiya-starovoyt\/33466036.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.currenttime.tv\/a\/rossiya-starovoyt\/33466036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had to issue<\/a> 43,000 forced ticket refunds, accommodate 94,000 people in hotels, and provide food and drink worth 354,000 rubles (\u20ac3,800). Russian pro-government media website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/7870644?tg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kommersant reported<\/a> that the transport issues will cost billions of rubles (more than \u20ac200,000).<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian drones have repeatedly forced Russia to close its airspace for civilian traffic, as Kyiv targets military plants and other sites as it looks to inflict domestic pain on Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Starovoit, former governor of Russia&#8217;s Kursk region, was appointed to lead the transport ministry in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airlines had to issue 43,000 forced ticket refunds, accommodate 94,000 people in hotels, and provide food and drink&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2594,18991,2000,299,660,2597,5733,332,657,333,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-245248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-airlines","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-kremlin","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-mobility","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114811978630990402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}