“We confirm that Podgorica refused to allow the Russian government aircraft to fly in Montenegrin airspace,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Earlier, the Serbian newspaper Vecherniye Novosti reported that Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro had closed their airspace for Lavrov’s aircraft to fly into Serbia.
Later, the Russian ambassador to Sofia, Eleonora Mitrofanova, confirmed that Bulgaria had refused to provide an air corridor for Lavrov's plane.