Moscow is shutting its skies to 36 countries following Western sanctions against Russia.
Russia has banned airlines from 36 countries from using its airspace in a tit-for-tat response to Western sanctions.Russia had already barred UK airlines from flying to and across the region after Britain banned national airline Aeroflot from landing in the UK.The announcement means all planes, including the private jets of oligarchs, will now be unable to land in, take off from or fly over any EU nation.
On Monday, the Russian aviation regulator, Rosaviatsia, said: "A restriction has been imposed on flights for airlines of 36 countries in accordance with international law as a retaliatory measure for the ban imposed by the European states on the flights of commercial airliners operated by Russian airlines and/or registered in Russia."
The countries banned from Russia's airspace are: Albania, Anguilla, Austria, Belgium, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark , Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK.
On Monday, Switzerland - traditionally a neutral country and whose banks are believed to hold billions of dollars in Russian fundsThe Swiss justice minister, Karin Keller-Sutter, also said it had banned five oligarchs with links to Russia's president Vladimir Putin from entering the country, though declined to name them.
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