Published on
27/05/2025 – 12:47 GMT+2
Several airports in Russia suspended operations in a single day on Tuesday amid drone assaults from Ukraine, stories say.
The arrivals and departures of civilian plane had been limited on the airports of Nizhny Novgorod, Saratov, Tambov and Kaluga, in keeping with Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency.
The company spokesperson Artyom Korenyako mentioned in a publish on Telegram, “To ensure the safety of civil aircraft flights, temporary restrictions on their entry and exit have also been introduced”.
The Russian Defence Ministry later claimed that 99 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted and destroyed over seven Russian areas from Monday night to Tuesday morning.
Over the previous few days, Russian government close down airports in Moscow two times, on Friday and Sunday, amid Kyiv’s drone raids into Russian territory.
Since the tip of April, Kyiv has intensified its drone assaults on Russia, launching masses of drones at Moscow and disrupting the airspace over the Russian capital.
In the run-up to Moscow’s Victory Day parade, Ukrainian drones brought about large disruptions at Moscow airports for a couple of days in a row. At least 60,000 other folks had their journeys not on time or cancelled, with over 300 flights affected.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s high-level visitors had been amongst the ones suffering from the disruption.
The aircraft sporting his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić was once reportedly compelled to divert to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku as a result of the threats in Russian airspace.
