Dobrolet operated its first commercial flight on the Moscow to Simferopol route on 10 June 2014 . Prior to the flight , which was fully booked , the aircraft was inspected by Dmitry Medvedev , who also greeted Dobrolet customers who were booked on the flight . After inspecting the aircraft , Medvedev is reported as saying " The plane is cool , it 's completely new . Its seats are narrow , but the flights are n't very long so I hope everything will be OK . " In the aftermath of the unsolved shootdown on 17 July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine , on 30 July 2014 the European Union placed additional sanctions on Russian individuals and entities , amongst them Dobrolet , LLC . The EU justified the sanctions on Dobrolet as it was state-owned and Dobrolet had operated only on the Moscow to Simferopol route , which in the view of the EU facilitates what it deemed to be the illegal integration of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation and thereby it deems the act of flights to Crimea to be supporting the violation of Ukrainian sovereignty
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Dobrolet (low-cost airline)