EU To Shut Airspace To Russian Airlines, To Buy Ukraine Arms

More than 1,00,000 people attended a Ukraine solidarity march in Berlin on Sunday, police said, with many protesters dressed in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukraine flag. Police estimated the turnout at ‘at least a low six-number figure’, while organisers of the march said half a million had turned up

Brussels: The EU plans to close its airspace to Russian airlines, fund weapons purchase to Ukraine and ban some pro-Kremlin media outlets in its latest response to Russia’s invasion, European Commission officials said Sunday. The measures, which Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she expected to be endorsed, would mark the first time the 27-nation bloc finances the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to a country under attack. “Another taboo has fallen. The taboo that the EU was not providing arms in a war,” said the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.