EU Bans Russian State Media Outlets, All Russian Flights

Vehicles of Russian state-controlled broadcaster Russia Today (RT) are seen near the Red Square in central Moscow on June 15, 2018. Gleb Garanich/Reuters

The European Union will shut down the bloc’s airspace to all Russian planes and will ban Russian state media outlets Russia Today and Sputnik, according to the head of the European Commission

The EU will be closed down to Russia-controlled, owned, or registered aircraft, including the “private jets of oligarchs,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday.