Russia-Ukraine updates: US to ban Russian carriers from its airspace

France’s embassy in Ukraine will be moved from the capital, Kyiv, to Lviv, near the Polish border, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a live interview on BFMTV.

Le Drian said, “I'm not sure President Putin imagined his operation was going to be so difficult."

He added, “Vladimir Putin has lost the communication battle” and that while “Putin wanted to divide us," "he has achieved the opposite."

The U.S. is suspending operations at the embassy in Belarus, where just half a dozen U.S. diplomats had been based, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced.

The U.S. is also drawing down its embassy in Moscow, authorizing the departure of non-emergency staff and diplomats' families, Blinken said in a statement.

He didn't cite any specific threat but said the department took these steps "due to security and safety issues stemming from the unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces in Ukraine."

The U.S. special envoy for Belarus tweeted a photo showing two American diplomats taking down the flag at the embassy in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

"Belarus' complicity in Russia's war against Ukraine has shown the regime's loss of sovereign decision-making," Ambassador Julie Fisher tweeted.

Fisher said all staff have already departed the country, with some moving to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where she has been based.

While U.S. officials have been concerned that Belarusian forces will join Russia's invasion, a senior Defense Department official told reporters Monday they've seen no indication that Belarus is preparing to join. But Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko "seems to be establishing a pretext for more active involvement" in the war, according to an internal State Department situation report Sunday obtained by ABC News, including by accusing Ukraine of "beating" and "poisoning" Belarusians in Ukraine.

-ABC News' Conor Finnegan, Josh Margolin, Matt Seyler

FIFA and UEFA said they are suspending all Russian national and club soccer teams from competition until further notice.

The UEFA soccer league also said it's ending its partnership with Russian gas company Gazprom.

"The decision is effective immediately and covers all existing agreements including the UEFA Champions League, UEFA national team competitions and UEFA EURO 2024," UEFA said.

Russia is restricting the flights of airlines from 36 countries "as a retaliatory measure" for the European Union's ban on Russian planes, Russian news agency Interfax reported, citing the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency.

The countries on Russia's ban are: Austria, Albania, Anguilla (a British overseas territory), Belgium, Bulgaria, the British Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Denmark (including Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the territorial sea), Jersey, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Canada, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Estonia.

The U.S., which isn't included on Russia's list, hasn't banned Russia from its airspace. However, Delta suspended its codeshare partnership with Russian airline Aeroflot on Friday.

-ABC News' Anastasia Bagaeva