State of the Union: Biden announces closure of US airspace to Russian airlines

The American President, Joe Bidenrevealed on Tuesday its decision to close United States airspace to russian airlinesas have the European Union (EU) and Canada.

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 and close US airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and further suffocating its economy,” Trump said.

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).

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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.

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