WASHINGTON – 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 with our allies and close the American airspace to all Russian flights, to further isolate Russia and suffocate its economy even more,” assured the president.
The White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, affirmed this Monday that Washington would not It was easy to make that decision, which will surely provoke a reciprocal measure on the part of Moscow, because many flights of its airlines “fly over Russia to go to Asia”.
This Monday Russia closed its space to flights from 36 countries, including all those in the European Union and Canada, in response to the same measure adopted by these States after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as reported by the Federal Transport Agency Air (Rosaviatsia).
European measures in retaliation for the military operation that Russia launched last 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, given that the closure of European and Canadian airspace forces its planes to take a long detour.