The European Union will shut down the bloc’s airspace to all Russian planes and will ban Russian state media outlets Russia Today and Sputnik, according to the head of the European Commission The EU will be closed down to Russia-controlled, owned, or registered aircraft, including the “private jets of oligarchs,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday. At the same time, the EU will suspend “the Kremlin’s media machine in the EU” by banning state-owned Russia Today, Sputnik, and their subsidiaries. Those outlets, she said on Twitter, “will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify” the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Von der Leyen’s Twitter post also referred to reports in RT and Sputnik as “toxic and harmful disinformation.” Days earlier, the EU sanctioned RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan. It’s not clear whether the EU will suspend other Russian news outlets such as TASS, Interfax, or Ria Novosti. It’s …
EU Bans Russian State Media Outlets, All Russian Flights
February 27, 2022
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