Russia on Feb. 28 closed its airspace to airlines from the European Union and Canada following sanctions from Brussels and Ottawa that banned Russian aviation from entry as fighting raged in Ukraine. Flights from 36 countries, including 27 all members of the EU, have been banned from Russian airspace, which will likely affect several airlines that use Russian airspace to get from Europe to Asia. The Russian airspace restrictions are being brought “as a retaliatory measure for the ban by European states on flights by civil aviation operated by Russian airlines or registered in Russia,” Russia’s civil aviation authority said. Russia’s Aeroflot said it would cancel all flights to European destinations in response. Airlines will now only be able to enter Russian airspace with a special permit. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, announced on Feb. 27, that the EU would shut …