Europe and Russia interrupted direct flights
In a new package of anti-Russian bans, Russian flights are banned in all EU airspace, announced on February 27 by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. “We are closing EU airspace to Russian aircraft. We are imposing a ban on all aircraft that belong to Russia, that are registered in Russia or controlled by Russia. These planes should not land, take off or fly over EU territory,” she said (quoted by TASS). She clarified that we are talking about a ban on all aircraft, including participation in business jets.
Two sources of Vedomosti in the travel and aviation company on the afternoon of February 27 expected that such a decision could be announced as early as the evening. By individual status only in Cyprus, belonging to one of them. He also added that flights could continue to Greece. Reuters refers to the official sky of the EU representative, who said that the sanctions restrictions against Russia will be coordinated with other usual “big seven” (G7) in which the UK also includes the UK (closed its skies to Russian aircraft since February 23), Canada ( has already closed), Japan and the United States (at the time of submission of the article, no closure was announced).