A South African Airways plane carrying Ramaphosa’s Presidential Protection Unit and several journalists was detained for 26 hours at the Warsaw Chopin Airport and barred from flying over Hungarian airspace to reach him in Russia.
WARSAW, Poland - President Cyril Ramaphosa will be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on Saturday without his full security detail in attendance.A plane carrying almost 100 security personnel and a dozen journalists was barred from flying over Hungarian airspace to reach him in Russia.
After being holed up in an SAA Airbus A340-300 overnight and refused entry into Poland, South Africa was now seemingly feeling the consequences of its nonaligned stance towards Russia. During Friday’s visit to Ukraine, Ramaphosa was accompanied by an advance security team that left South Africa earlier in preparation for the trip.Members of his protection unit told Eyewitness News that it was not uncommon for the transport of their weapons to prove problematic, even in African states.
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