{"id":814,"date":"2025-06-13T16:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:59:25","slug":"russia-warns-citizens-against-visiting-iran-and-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/russia-warns-citizens-against-visiting-iran-and-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns citizens against visiting Iran and Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Foreign Ministry in Moscow issued the advisory following Israeli airstrikes on Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has advised against traveling to Israel and Iran, following the Israeli airstrikes carried out on Friday. Russian citizens currently in\u00a0the Jewish state have also been advised to leave.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military conducted a series of airstrikes on numerous targets \u2013 both military and nuclear sites \u2013 across Iran early on Friday. The Iranian authorities have confirmed that the attacks killed Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of Iran\u2019s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

Several media outlets have claimed that several other high-ranking Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists were also killed<\/p>\n

In an advisory published later in the day, the Foreign Ministry urged \u201cRussian citizens to refrain from visiting Israel and Iran \u2013 until the situation stabilizes.\u201d<\/em> The diplomats also called on compatriots to \u201cimmediately leave dangerous areas, if possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv issued a similar advisory, urging Russian nationals \u201cwho have the opportunity, to leave Israel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n \"RT\"
Kremlin comments on Israel\u2019s attack on Iran<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Russia\u2019s civil aviation authority ordered the country\u2019s airlines to halt all flights to and from Israel and Iran, as well as to avoid both countries\u2019 respective airspaces until further notice, which is tentatively expected on June 26.<\/p>\n

Following the Israeli airstrikes against Iran, a number of global airlines, including Air France KLM, Ryanair, Wizz, Air India, Emirates and Lufthansa, have similarly begun avoiding the region and diverting flights to skirt the airspaces of Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Iran, as attested by FlightRadar data.<\/p>\n

According to the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol), some 650 flights have been canceled due to the escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Foreign Ministry in Moscow issued the advisory following Israeli airstrikes on Friday Russia’s Foreign Ministry has advised against traveling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}