Dozens of flights that would leave the airport of the second largest city in Russia, St. Petersburg, are late
Russian air defenses knocked down on Saturday a drone that was heading to Moscow and experts were examining fragments on the ground, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at Telegram.
Several airports in Central Russia have suspended their operations due to concerns about airspace safety, Russian air transport agency Rosaviatsia said.
In a series of advertisements over several hours, Rosaviathasia said the operations were suspended at Izhevsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Penza, Tamov and Ulyanovsk airports, east and southeast of Moscow.
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Authorities at Russia’s second largest city airport, St. Petersburg, were cited by Russian news agencies saying dozens of flights were late.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said its air defense units intercepted and destroyed 32 drones over a three -hour period in various areas in the center of the country.
