Ukrainian drones have paralysed Moscow as over 500 flights are disrupted at airports
Moscow's airports have cancelled and delayed 527 flights amid a large-scale drone attack.
Source: The Moscow Times, an independent Amsterdam-based news outlet
Details: The biggest disruption occurred at Sheremetyevo airport, where 50 departing flights and 60 arriving flights were cancelled as of 11:00, while a further 147 flights were delayed. Vnukovo airport cancelled 41 flights and delayed 133.
At Domodedovo airport, 25 flights were unable to depart: nine were cancelled and 16 were delayed. Ten arriving flights were cancelled and another 56 were delayed. At Zhukovsky airport, at least four departing flights were delayed and one arriving flight was cancelled.
Rosaviatsiya, Russia's federal air transport agency, said it has lifted restrictions at Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, while Domodedovo and Zhukovsky were accepting and dispatching flights subject to approval.
Background:
- On the night of 17-18 June, drone attacks targeted sites in Russia's Rostov and Belgorod oblasts, triggering fires at an oil depot in the city of Gukovo and at what is believed to be a military storage facility near Shebekino.
- On the night of 17-18 June, Ukrainian drones penetrated Moscow's layered air defence and struck the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya, causing a major fire at the facility. Russian media outlets have described this as the largest attack in the past two years.
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