No fly: US to effectively ground 100 aircraft that flew to Russia

The US, Canada and much of Europe have barred Russian planes from flying over their airspace as they exert pressure on Moscow over the war in Ukraine [File: Marina Lystseva/Reuters]

The United States has moved to effectively ground 100 aircraft that it says recently flew to Russia, including a plane used by Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, and may have violated US export controls.

The US Department of Commerce on Friday published a list of 99 Boeing aeroplanes operated by Russian passenger and cargo carriers – including Aeroflot, AirBridge Cargo, Utair, Nordwind, Azur Air and Aviastar-TU – as well as Abramovich’s Gulfstream G650.