Ukraine’s Overseas Minister Dmytro Kuleba yesterday accused Israeli nationwide airline El Al of earning money “soaked in blood,” the Jerusalem Submit reported.
Based on the Israeli day by day, Kuleba accused El Al of bypassing the worldwide sanctions imposed on Russia as it’s accepting funds on its web site from Russia’s Mir community for worldwide digital funds.
“Whereas the world sanctions Russia for its barbaric atrocities in Ukraine, some desire to earn a living soaked in Ukrainian blood,” Kuleba tweeted, calling this coverage as “immoral and a blow to Ukrainian-Israeli relations.” The tweet has since been deleted.
He added: “Right here is @EL_AL_ISRAEL accepting funds in Russian banking system ‘Mir’ designed to evade sanctions.” He included in his put up a screenshot of a cost web page for El Al bookings that accepts funds from Mir in addition to Visa and Mastercard.
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Responding to Kuleba, El Al stated: “It’s unlucky {that a} easy verify was not completed with us earlier than the deceptive tweet, because the information are completely totally different.”
“El Al is working flights to Russia on the request of the Israeli authorities and we are going to proceed to get Israelis and Jews out of Russia as long as it’s potential.”
El Al stated it stopped accepting Mir funds on 28 February — 4 days after the beginning of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
