European countries decided to close their airspace to Russian airlines, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In return, Moscow announced that it would take measures to respond in kind.
The Lithuanian government said it would ban Russian airlines from using its airspace from 22:00 GMT Saturday.
Earlier, Lithuanian Transport Minister Marius Skodice said that the three Baltic states - Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania - had agreed in principle to close their airspace to Russian aircraft.
"Since this morning we have been preparing documents for our governments to vote on. Our plan is to take this step at once," he added in a Facebook post.
Romania and the Czech Republic also announced that they would prevent Russian airlines from entering their airspace.
And Czech television quoted Transport Minister Martin Kupka as saying that his country will close its airspace to Russian aircraft, starting from Sunday.
In Poland, too, government spokesman Piotr Muller said - on Twitter on Friday - that a similar ban will be applied from midnight, and the Polish national company "LOT" (LOT) announced the suspension of its flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg, as of Friday afternoon. .
A similar ban came into effect in Bulgaria also at midnight, in response to "the aggravation of the military conflict and in solidarity with Ukraine".
According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Transport, the Russian planes "can no longer enter the sovereign airspace of Bulgaria, including over the territorial waters."
This came in the wake of a similar decision taken by Britain last Thursday against the Russian national company "Aeroflot", and British Transport Minister Grant Shapps announced - Friday evening - a ban on private Russian planes, with immediate effect.
Russia, for its part, responded by banning all flights linked to the UK over its territory, including transit flights.
And the Russian Federal Aviation Agency (Rosaviatsya) announced today, Saturday, that Russia closed its airspace to Romanian airlines, "due to unfriendly decisions by the Romanian aviation authorities."
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