According to Ukraine's independent news agency on the 19th, Lufthansa will suspend all flights to and from Kiev from February 21 to February 28.

In addition, Swissair and Austrian Airlines also stopped flights to Kiev.

"Lufthansa has been monitoring the situation and will decide at a later date whether it will resume flights," Lufthansa said in a statement.

  In addition, Austrian Airlines issued an announcement saying that the airline's flights to Kiev and Odessa will be suspended until the end of February.

Swissair also announced that it would suspend flights from Zurich to Kiev until the 28th.

  Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's special representative for sanctions policy, Makeyev, commented on social media that he wanted European airlines to explain the reasons for the decision.