Direct airline flights between Russia and Ukraine have stopped.
The move announced last month by Kyiv is the latest in a series of tit-for-tat measures imposed over the conflict in Ukraine. The ban began at midnight, after talks to avoid it failed last week.
About 70,000 passengers a month will be affected and analysts said it will be especially costly to Russian airlines.
Meanwhile, Ukrainians are voting Sunday in elections for local councils, chairmen of rural councils, and city and town mayors.
The vote is seen as a test Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s loose-knit coalition’s policies aimed at applying for EU membership by 2020.
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Source: Voice of America
