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Moscow has complained twice to the Ukrainian embassy in Russia over instances of Russian flight crews that have been blocked by border authorities in Kyiv from exiting their planes, the Russian foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Pilots and crew from flights of the Russian carrier Aeroflot, according to the airline's report to the ministry, have not been allowed to exit the plane after landing in Kyiv.

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