Serbian President Vučić had to make an emergency landing in Baku as the plane was denied Latvian and Lithuanian airspace.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s aircraft (registration YU-SRB), en route to Moscow to attend the Victory Day parade, was forced to make an emergency landing in Baku.
According to reports, the diversion was due to denied airspace access and unspecified “security threats,” including the potential danger posed by air defense systems along the route.
Earlier, Latvia and Lithuania had explicitly banned Vučić’s plane from entering their airspace, while the European Union warned that his participation in the May 9 Victory Day celebrations could complicate Serbia’s EU accession talks.
In a similar move, Poland and Lithuania also blocked Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico from flying to Moscow, and Estonia issued a blanket ban on any flights to Russia for the commemoration.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces are intensifying drone attacks on Moscow in an attempt to disrupt the arrival of foreign leaders.
