KIEV, Aug. 4 – Direct flights will be launched between Odessa and Germany's Paderborn in 2017. The Odessa airport and the city of Paderborn signed a relevant memorandum, Odessa regional governor Mikheil Saakashvili said.

"The final phase of negotiations with Air Berlin is underway," he wrote on his Facebook page.

Saakashvili said that Paderborn is located in the center of Germany and it is easy to get to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Amsterdam from it.