“Tonight, I'm announcing that we will join our allies in closing off American airspace to all Russian flights, further isolating Russia and adding an additional squeeze on their economy,” Biden said. SOTU2022
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.
While stopping short of committing ground troops or enacting a no-fly zone over Ukraine, the U.S. and its allies have already imposed stern sanctions against Russia — including directly targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov — as global condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine continues to grow.
France, Britain, Austria, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and Estonia, among others, joined in the airspace ban in protest. "There is no place for planes of the aggressor state in democratic skies," Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas tweeted.
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