Ukrainian drones paralyse Moscow as over 500 flights are disrupted at airports
At Moscow's airports, 527 flights have been cancelled and delayed amid a large-scale drone attack.
Source: The Moscow Times, an independent Amsterdam-based news outlet
Details: The biggest disruption was at Sheremetyevo airport, where 50 departures and 60 arrivals were cancelled as of 11:00 and a further 147 flights were delayed. At Vnukovo, 41 flights were cancelled and 133 delayed.
At Domodedovo airport, 25 flights were unable to depart: nine were cancelled and 16 delayed. Ten incoming flights were cancelled and another 56 were delayed. At Zhukovsky airport, at least four departures were delayed and one arrival was cancelled.
Rosaviatsiya, Russia's federal air transport agency, said it has lifted restrictions at Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, while Domodedovo and Zhukovsky are 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. Russian media outlets said the attack was the largest in the past two years.
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