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Russia's Aeroflot says halting all flights abroad from March 8

AFP . Moscow
05 Mar 2022 18:32:33 | Update: 05 Mar 2022 18:32:33
Russia's Aeroflot says halting all flights abroad from March 8
In this file photo taken on June 13, 2018 an Aeroflot Airbus A320 aircraft takes off at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow — AFP Photo

Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot said Saturday that it was suspending all of its international flights beginning March 8, as Moscow faces down waves of Western sanctions over its military incursion in Ukraine.

An Aeroflot statement on the "temporary suspension of all international flights from March 8," cited new "circumstances that impede the operation of flights," noting that all domestic routes would continue unchanged as well as flights to neighbouring Belarus.

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