Savelyev called the timing of the possible launch of Mariupol airport

Mariupol Airport can be used in 2024-2025, “if the situation allows.” This was stated by Minister of Transport Vitaly Savelyev at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Our overall development also includes five airports – Mariupol, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye. When the opportunity arises, we will start from Mariupol. We are now engaged in the preparation of design estimates. We believe that, if the situation allows, we will be able to use this airport during 2024-2025. The rest will be a little later, in stages, because there is destruction there, ” quotes Saveliev Press Service of the Kremlin.

At the end of March, the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko declaredthat flights to the airports of new regions – the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions – will not be operated yet “for known reasons.” At the same time, he clarified that “the priority plans for restoration are the Mariupol airport.” Neradko noted that projects for the reconstruction of airports and landing sites in affiliated entities had already been prepared by the Federal Air Transport Agency and the Ministry of Transport.

On September 30, 2022, Putin and the heads of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions signed agreements on the annexation of the regions to Russia. Putin stressed that residents of the annexed territories “become citizens of the Russian Federation forever”