Moscow Airport: Flights were suspended at three Moscow airports on Sunday evening, according to the aviation regulator Rosaviatsia, following drone attacks that the city’s mayor claimed had been successfully repelled.
Operations at Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and Zhukovsky airports were temporarily halted due to a series of recurring suspensions. Sheremetyevo airport, however, continued to operate normally, Rosaviatsia reported.
All four international airports in the Russian capital has paused flights as a result of the ongoing drone attack on Moscow.
Air defence systems had downed 71 Ukrainian drones, including 11 flying towards Moscow, since 2 pm (1100 GMT), the Interfax news agency reported, citing the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Earlier, the Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia said in a press release that air traffic restrictions had been imposed at all four international airports - Domodedovo, Vnukovo, Zhukovsky, and Sheremetyevo – due to safety concerns.
"Air defences have intercepted another UAV flying towards Moscow," Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on his Telegram channel.
"Thus, the total number of downed drones has reached 11," Sobyanin wrote in his latest social media post at 4 pm (local time).
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As the war with its neighbour approaches its fourth anniversary, Russia claims that Ukrainian drones regularly attack its different regions, including Moscow. Russia, too, retaliates with a barrage of missiles and drones.