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The psychosis generated around a possible Russian army offensive against Ukraine

threatens to aggravate the economic problems of Kiev

, which could witness in the coming hours a multiplication in the suspension of the flights of numerous companies since one of the most significant British insurers

has decided to stop covering this route

as of Monday, as reported by the local Ukrainian press.

The Dutch company

KLM already announced this Saturday that it was stopping flying to the European nation

and the local government was forced to release a statement in which it assured that "the airspace remains open and the State is working

to prevent risks for airlines

."

Kiev has warned the airlines to avoid the Black Sea region in the coming days, considering it "potentially dangerous", which will surely affect the apprehension of international companies.

History recalls that in July 2014, more than 300 people were killed when the Malaysia Airlines plane they were traveling on

was shot down by a missile launched by pro-Russian militias

.

The still hypothetical interruption of flights is part of the escalation of tension

caused by the concentration of Russian troops in the vicinity of the Ukrainian border

and the repeated information leaked by the US government about a hypothetical imminent invasion, which they have even put and a possible date: this Wednesday.

The news has led to at least 35 countries - Spain included - recommending their citizens to leave the Ukrainian territory.

The president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky was scheduled to talk in the next few hours with his counterpart Joe Biden, hours after the local president once again accused him -without naming the US- of generating "panic" and saying that all this avalanche of warnings they are "helping" the country's "enemies" by causing substantial damage to its economy.

As the Ukrainian Defense Strategy Center think tank

recently explained

, this nation's "emerging economic problems" "are entirely due to the shadow cast

by the threat of a dramatic escalation in Russian military aggression

" because until the present crisis the local economy maintained "a solid state".

Since then the country "has lost access to the international financial market" that they are not willing to risk their money in the current situation,

the local currency has depreciated

and Kiev is bound to require emergency assistance to overcome this gap.

According to a recent report by the UK Business and Economics Research Centre,

Ukraine has lost an average of 40 billion dollars per year due to the conflict

, or almost 20 percent of its Gross Domestic Product. before Russia began the military struggle in 2014. Aware of this situation, the ambassadors of the European Union indicated last week that the EU is willing to provide another 1,200 million euros to Kiev.

The avalanche of headlines contrasts

with the normality that can be seen in Kiev

-including its airport-, where this Sunday the local population attended the comments and statements that were heard in foreign media and television channels in almost astonishment.

Vendors in the Ukrainian city of New York, EFE

In the center of the city, the only crowds that were observed were those that generated in front of confectionery establishments or to take a photo in the emblematic Plaza de la Independencia in the capital

along with characters like Pepa Pig

, who attracted much more attention than the posters with allusions to a possible conflict installed in the same location.

The last conversation between Biden and Putin does not seem to have lessened the mutual differences.

The White House explained that the former had explained to his counterpart that the US

continues to bet on diplomacy

but that "it is also prepared for other scenarios."

Moscow, for its part, continues to deny that it intends to invade this country and maintains its defiant discourse.

Its ambassador to Sweden, Viktor Tatarintsev, declared in an interview with a Swedish newspaper that Moscow "doesn't give a shit" - that was the expression

he used after asking "sorry for the language"

- the possible sanctions from the West and that In addition, those that have been applied in the past have served to improve their production.

"We don't have Swiss or Italian cheeses,

but we have learned to make Russian cheeses as good as those

, following the Swiss and Italian recipes," he specified with a certain irony.

The verbal attacks threaten to exceed the mere space of the dialectic since in the last hours Moscow accused a US submarine of entering its territorial waters in the Pacific, near the Kuril Islands, and said that it had forced it to leave the area "at full speed"

using the "appropriate means".

However, a US Navy spokesman said the Russian story was not true and that no contact had taken place between the two.

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