Russian Post reported today in a statement that it suspended the acceptance of international shipments to Cuba due to the impossibility of making them, the TASS news agency reported.
At the end of February, Russia closed its airspace to 36 countries in response to a similar measure applied to its planes in the European Union zone and others such as the United States and Canada, which limited travel.
In addition, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) recommended domestic airlines to significantly limit flights abroad, due to a “high risk of detention or seizure of aircraft of Russian companies abroad”.
Following that guidance, Russian airlines such as Aeroflot, S7 and Pobeda have suspended most of their international service to the West.
Moscow approved a group of economic and financial provisions to deal with the more than 2,800 foreign punitive measures applied against the country since the middle of last month, especially after the start of the military operation in Ukraine on February 24 last.
The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and the countries of the European Union imposed new sanctions on Russia, targeting key sectors of trade, finance, energy, exports, aviation and space.
The restrictions included the partial disconnection of Russian banks from the Swift international payment system, the closure of airspace for its airlines, the paralysis of the international reserves of the Central Bank of Russia and the embargo on oil purchases by Washington.
