As predicted by Bloomberg, Aeroflot will soon be forced to dismantle the aircraft in its fleet due to a shortage of components and spare parts.

The Russian company Aeroflot has reduced the number of destinations from 56 countries to 13. Due to sanctions, it plans to buy domestic aircraft instead of foreign ones.

In March, in response to the European Union's statement about the return of leased planes by Russian airlines, Putin authorized the withdrawal of leased planes. Aeroflot urgently cancelled all international flights except those to Belarus, but then gradually put 12 more countries back on the schedule.

The number of passengers carried on Aeroflot's international flights in March halved compared to the same period a year earlier to 189,000.

"Aeroflot was built to world standards, but now it will become a shadow of itself, only able to fly to parts of the world that are willing to do business with Russia," Christopher Grenville of TS Lombard, a London-based consulting firm, told Bloomberg.

The vast majority of the group's more than 350 aircraft are Airbus or Boeing models, and they will face looming component shortages.

It is very likely that the scenario according to which Aeroflot's affairs will develop will be similar to the Iranian scenario, where decades of U.S. sanctions have crippled the aviation sector of the Islamic Republic.

Note that the EU has banned most Iran Air aircraft from flying in its airspace for security reasons, and Iran has had to resort to intermediaries to avoid restrictions and acquire spare parts.