EU could ban Russian flights from its airspace, official says

FILE PHOTO: An Airbus A320-200 of Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot takes off in Colomiers at the Toulouse-Blagnac airport

(Reuters) – A European Union-wide ban for Russian flights could be part of a fresh package of sanctions on Moscow to be discussed later on Sunday by the bloc’s foreign ministers, an EU official said.

A vast majority of EU member states have already closed their airspace to these flights, and a more formal decision could be taken shortly, the official added.

(Reporting by Sabine Siebold; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

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