Zelensky warns airlines Russian airspace will 'effectively be closing'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian airspace is effectively becoming closed as Ukrainian drones strike ever deeper inside Russia, and urged airlines, insurers and anyone still using Russia's major airports to pull out. He stressed that Ukraine does not threaten civilian aviation as such, but that Russia's skies will have drones on a scale that has to be taken into account. Putin responded by calling the statement 'a declaration of state terrorism'.

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