Estonia, Latvia close airspace to Russian planes - TASS

 Estonia will close its airspace to Russian planes, the country’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Taavi Aas announced on Saturday.

"Estonia joins Poland's initiative and will ban all Russian airlines from using our airspace," he said, as cited by the ERR news outlet.

"I invite our Baltic colleagues to do the same to cut Russia off from European airspace," the minister pointed out, adding: "Europe must be united and resolute in its response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

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 Latvia will close its airspace to Russian airlines, the country’s Justice Minister Janis Bordans wrote on Twitter on Saturday.

"Rest assured, our airspace will be closed to Russian flights," he said.

Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks suggested on February 25 that the country’s airspace should be closed to Russian planes. The country’s Transport Minister Talis Linkaits, in turn, said that Latvia would coordinate its decisions on the possible airspace closure with other EU members.

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