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Around a dozen Russian aircraft stranded in Switzerland

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the terminal of the Euroairport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg near the town of Saint-Louis, France May 18, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Around a dozen Russian aircraft are stranded at Swiss airports by the closure of airspace in many European countries to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, Switzerland's civil aviation authority estimated on Wednesday.

"I expect that it will be around a dozen aircraft in Switzerland," a spokesperson for the Federal Office of Civil Aviation said. This included EuroAirport near Basel, which straddles the Swiss-French border.

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