The Croatian government on Monday decided to ban flights of Russian-owned, Russian-registered or Russian-controlled aircraft in Croatia's airspace.

Transport Minister Oleg Butkovic said that the ban refers to arrivals and departures and overflights by planes of the Russian Federation’s air companies and planes owned, rented, or operated by citizens of the Russian Federation in Croatia’s airspace.

Exceptions from the ban are humanitarian flights, flights for rescue operations with special permits as well as flights in extraordinary circumstances such as repatriation flights.

The government set up a crisis management team for the implementation of the intervention plan for the security of gas supplies as well as a task force for monitoring the security of the provision of oil and petroleum products on the Croatian market.

In this context, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic recalled the importance of the construction of the LNG terminal on the island of Krk, with the capacity of 2.6 billion cubic metres, which, he said, was a sufficient amount for households and the enterprise sector.