US President Joe Biden revealed on Tuesday his decision to close US airspace to Russian airlines, as the European Union (EU) and Canada have also done.
Biden’s announcement drew a standing ovation from lawmakers who attended his first State of the Union address before both houses of the US Congress.
“We will join our allies in closing US airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and further suffocating its economy.”assured the president.
The White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said Monday that it was not easy for Washington to make that decision, which will surely provoke a reciprocal measure by Moscow, because many flights of its airlines “fly over Russia to go to Asia ”.
This Monday Russia closed its airspace to flights from 36 countries, including all those from the European Union and Canada, in response to the same measure adopted by these States after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the Federal Agency of Air Transport (Rosaviatsia).
The European measures in retaliation for the military operation that Russia launched on February 24 against Ukraine have forced the Russian airline Aeroflot to suspend all its flights to Europe and its neighboring countries until the next months of March or May.
It has also canceled its flights to several of its destinations in the United States and Latin America, since the closure of European and Canadian airspace forces its planes to take a long detour.
Source: Gestion
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