View from the window of a Russian plane during the flightMOSCOW, March 1 The Federal Air Transport Agency recommends refraining from traveling non-official trips to foreign countries in the near future, the department said. «We recommend to refrain from non-official trips to foreign countries in the near future,» the message says. 61500580813ef96711585bf8936e77cd.jpg» />The Federal Air Transport Agency will help Russians leave European countries The countries of the European Union and Canada have closed their airspace to Russian aircraft in connection with the operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. Russia responded in the mirror and also closed its airspace to the aircraft of these states. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. On Monday morning, more than 1.1 thousand objects were hit: airfields, command posts, radar stations, and so on. The territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, and work is underway to restore water supply to the Crimea. The offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west. A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates, however, has not yet been officially published. The RF Armed Forces have achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, there are dead and wounded among the Russian troops, but the losses among the Ukrainian troops and nationalists are many times higher. Exact figures have not yet been released. The Russian military department reports a number of cases of voluntary laying down of arms by Ukrainian troops — they are guaranteed safety and return to their families. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian security forces are deploying multiple rocket launchers right in the residential areas of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Putin called it a terrorist tactic.
