Russia Ukraine War News-Moscow airports have suspended flights following the downing of Ukrainian drones in Russia
Russia Ukraine War News-Moscow airports have suspended flights following the downing of Ukrainian drones in Russia
Russia Ukraine War News:-According to TASS News, the three largest airports in Moscow have suspended arrivals and departures today, Tuesday, August 22, after the Russian military shot down four Ukrainian drones near Moscow and over the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine.
According to Reuters, one of the drones was shot down over Krasnogorsk, a town outside of Moscow that is home to the Moscow regional government. The Russian defense ministry confirmed that no one was injured in the latest attack.
“The airspace over Vnukovo, Sheremetyevo, and Domodedovo is closed.” Flights are not being received, and departures are being delayed,” a TASS official said on condition of anonymity.
According to TASS, Russian News Agency
- On Tuesday, the Kiev government sent four drones to attack targets on Russian territory, all of which were intercepted, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
- “The Kiev regime’s attempt to carry out a terrorist attack using drones was foiled earlier today,” the ministry said.
- “Two drones were detected by on-duty air defense facilities and suppressed by electronic warfare systems over the territory of the Bryansk Region [in west Russia],” the statement said. “The other two drones were detected and destroyed by air defenses above Moscow Region territory.”
- These terrorist attacks were thwarted without causing any casualties, the ministry added.
- Russian air defense forces shot down two strike drones that were heading toward Moscow in the early hours of Tuesday, according to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, who posted the information earlier in the day on his Telegram channel. One was shot down close to the town of Chastsy, west of Moscow, and the other – close to Krasnogorsk, a satellite city close to Moscow’s northern border.
According to Reuters, Ukraine does not directly accept responsibility for the recent increase in drone strikes on Russian territory.
Earlier on Sunday, a Ukrainian drone crashed into the roof of a railway station in Russia’s Kursk region, injuring at least five people, CNN reported.
According to the Governor of the area, around 50 people were inside the railway station at the time of the incident and were safely evacuated. Two of the five injured people refused treatment, while the other three were taken to Kursk Regional Hospital.
The governor stated that the station had three platforms, one of which was temporarily closed, but the other two were operational and from which passengers boarded or de-boarded trains. The building was also damaged by the impact of the drone crash on its roof, as well as the waiting room and pedestrian tunnel.
This is yet another attack on the Russian mainland from Ukraine’s counteroffensive. Earlier this month, shells fired from Ukraine hit residential buildings in the Kursk region’s village of Volfino.
Ukraine rarely accepts responsibility for such attacks on Russia, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently stated that war is gradually returning to Russian territory. Ukraine is gradually regaining territory lost to Russia in the early stages of the war.
As reports of drone strikes become more common, the airspace above Moscow has been closed several times in recent days.
According to BBC, a Russian warplane also destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance boat in the Black Sea that was sailing near Russian gas production facilities, according to the defense ministry.
