Ukraine travel: All the airlines and countries that have been affected so far

Eastern European countries are monitoring their airspace carefully after Ukraine closed its airspace to commercial flights.

Russia has launched a land, sea and air invasion, and Europe’s aviation regulator has now warned of the dangers of flying in bordering countries.

Moldova, southwest of Ukraine, has banned commercial flights, while Belarus to the north said civilian planes could no longer fly over part of its territory.

Euronews Travel has contacted all the airlines that fly to Ukraine and surrounding countries. Their responses can be found in this article, which we are updating regularly.

"There is a risk of both intentional targeting and misidentification of civil aircraft," the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said in a conflict zone bulletin.

The agency said airspace within 100 nautical miles of Russia's borders with Ukraine could pose safety risks.

"The presence and possible use of a wide range of ground and airborne warfare systems poses a high risk for civil flights operating at all altitudes and flight levels."

EU and NATO member Lithuania has declared a state of emergency in response to "possible disturbances and provocations due to large military forces massed in Russia and Belarus". It is not yet clear how travel in and out of the Baltic country will be affected by this move.

The aviation industry has taken more notice of the risks posed by war since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, when Russia previously invaded the country.

Flight scanning websites and apps like FlightRadar24 recorded the sudden desertion of planes over Ukraine’s air space.

Early morning airline traffic skirted the whole country in crowded corridors to the north and west.

An El Al flight from Tel