Russia is closing its airspace to planes from four countries, its stateaviation agency said early Sunday.
The Federal Agency for Air Transport said its airspace is closed for planesfrom Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Estonia in response to those nationsbanning Russian airplanes from their airspace.
The ban also covers transit flights.
Russia already closed its airspace to planes from Czechia, UK, Bulgaria,Poland, and Romania.
Finland on early Sunday said the country will close its airspace to Russia.
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“Finland is preparing to close airspace from Russian air traffic,” TimoHarakka, Finland’s minister of transport and communications, said onTwitter.
The Nordic country is yet to announce the date of airspace closure.
The UK, Bulgaria, Czechia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania,and Estonia announced earlier that they closed their airspaces to Russia.
