Moscow, St. Petersburg airports halt flights overnight amid drone attacks. Almost 200 flights delayed or canceled.
Rosaviatsiya restricted flights arriving at and departing from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky airports starting the evening of October 15.
Moscow and St. Petersburg airports suspended flights overnight on October 15 due to an increase in drone attacks. Almost 200 flights were delayed or canceled, with the majority at Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports in Moscow. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that 94 Ukrainian drones were shot down by air defense forces near the capital.
St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport also halted operations, with 37 departures and 9 arrivals affected. Four drones were shot down in the Leningrad region, according to Governor Alexander Drozdenko. This comes as Ukraine intensifies its campaign to disrupt Russian airport operations, as reported by The Atlantic journalist Simon Shuster.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russian skies are becoming unsafe due to the growing number of drones. The situation has caused Moscow’s airports to close frequently in October, with a total of 101 hours of closures during the first two weeks of the month compared to just 46 hours in September.
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