Moscow Airports Halt Flights After Alleged Drone Attack

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18th Aug, 2023. 07:02 pm
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All 4 major airports in Moscow closed after the alleged drone strike.
Russian air defenses intercepted a drone that flew over the city.
Fragments from the downed drone fell near Expocentre, but no one was injured.

In the early hours of Friday morning, all four major airports in Moscow were temporarily closed after an alleged drone strike targeted the city, as reported by the civil aviation authority of Russia.

As a result of the closures of Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, and Zhukovsky airports, seven flights had to be redirected, according to Rosaviatsiya.

Sergey Sobyanin, the Mayor of Moscow, confirmed on Friday that Russian air defenses successfully intercepted a drone that had flown over the city during the night.

He communicated through a Telegram post that fragments from the downed drone fell near Expocentre, an exhibition center situated approximately three miles (five kilometers) east of the Kremlin within the broader Moscow city center.

He said the drone didn’t cause “any significant damage to the building” and that there were no reports of casualties.

This marked the third occasion in the last month that this particular area of Moscow has been impacted by fragments from drone incidents.

The Russian Defense Ministry was quick to blame Ukraine for the alleged attack. “The Kyiv regime launched another terrorist attack using a drone against facilities in Moscow and Moscow region on August 18 at 4:00 Moscow time,” the ministry said in a statement, using the Russian spelling of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Moscow Airports Halt Flights After Alleged Drone Attack

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