The European Union announced major moves against the Russian government and businesses over the country’s invasion.
In a first, the EU will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment to a country that is under attack, officials said. The EU will also shut down its airspace for “Russian-owned, Russian registered or Russian-controlled aircraft.”
“They won’t be able to land in, take off or overfly the territory of the EU,” Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, announced. In addition, the EU said it would ban the RT and Sputnik news agencies and would develop “tools to ban their toxic and harmful disinformation in Europe.”
The EU also announced it would be stopping exports of products to Belarus, including mineral fuels, tobacco, wood and timber, cement, iron and steel. It will also sanction Belarusians who are supporting the Russian war effort. Von der Leyen also said the EU will “welcome with open arms those Ukrainians who have to flee from Putin’s bombs” and is encouraging efforts to support refugees.
Canada also announced that it will prohibit “Russian-owned, chartered, or operated aircraft” from entering its airspace, effective immediately
Source-ABC
