Lavrov was scheduled to meet in Belgrade with the Serbian president, known as a close ally of Vladimir Putin.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovin the planned visit to Serbia has been canceled because Serbia’s neighboring countries have closed their airspace to a plane carrying Lavrov. The matter has been confirmed by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, Serbian media reported that Bulgaria, northern Macedonia and Montenegro had announced the closure of their airspace from Lavrov, with the result that his visit to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, scheduled for Monday, would not materialize.
Lavrov was scheduled to meet with the Serbian president in Belgrade Aleksandar Vučićwhich is known Vladimir Putin as a close ally.
The countries sympathize with each other, and Serbia is completely dependent on Russia for energy imports. The country has not imposed sanctions on Russia like the European Union member states.
The EU and Britain closed their airspace to Russian planes a few days after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. The flights of private oligarchs were also banned in the airspace of EU countries.