European sanctions have forced Aeroflot to ground its new low-cost subsidiary Dobrolet, Russia's national carrier said on Aug.3 in the most direct fallout yet of the EU’s punitive measures against Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
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Aeroflot had set up Dobrolet, Russia's first national low-cost carrier, in October 2013 and only started flights this year. Aeroflot said Dobrolet flights would be operated by Orenburg Air, another Aeroflot affiliate, to Simferopol until August 20 and to Volgograd until mid-September.
