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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv, Pjotr Sauer, and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Russian airspace becoming unsafe for commercial airlines, Zelenskyy says

Smoke slows across the skyline visible from a motorway
Smoke billows across the skyline in Podolsk, south of Moscow, after a Ukrainian drone attack in July. Photograph: Reuters

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared that Russia’s airspace is becoming unsafe for commercial airlines, as Vladimir Putin promised to increase strikes against Ukraine’s energy facilities in the run-up to winter.

The Ukrainian president said there was no intention to directly threaten civilian flights, but the growing number of attack drones being flown into Russia by Ukraine would have to be “taken into account” by the aviation industry.

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