"Got kicked out from the plane Delta airlines!!!! Seattle Atlanta…. Flight 1588 For being Russian citizen. Not kidding… Passenger next to me refused to fly with me because according to him I was an occupant of Crimea as well as other Russian citizens…. Delta airlines supported his case. As a result had to take another flight much later," Facebook user named Andre Yeremin said in a message reposted by the Russian Embassy in the US.
Yeremin added he had been living in the US for 22 years.
The Russian Embassy asked Delta Air Lines for comments on the issue.
"We’re looking into this incident," Delta Air Lines spokeswoman Elizabeth Wolf told Sputnik in a letter.
Crimea rejoined Russia in 2014 as a result of a referendum at which 97 percent of the peninsula residents supported the move. Despite that, the reunification was not recognized by the majority of the Western countries including the European Union which subsequently imposed the economic and political sanctions on Moscow in relation to the move. Moscow has repeatedly said that the referendum on rejoining Russia was conducted by Crimea in compliance with the international law.
