Russia restricts flights at five airports after Ukraine mass attack with 'more than 200' drones and missiles
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Flight restrictions were imposed at five airports in Russia after Ukraine unleashed an attack reportedly with more than 200 drones and ballistic missiles. Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region in western Russia, said Ukraine had launched a major missile attack but did not say which missiles had been used.
Flight restrictions were imposed at airports in Kazan, Saratov, Penza, Ulyanovsk and Nizhnekamsk, Russia’s aviation watchdog said. Nizhnekamsk, in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, is home to the major Taneco refinery. The Shot Telegram channel said attack sirens were sounded at the refinery.
It claimed Russia had downed more than 200 Ukrainian drones and five US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles. “The enemy has organised a massive combined strike on the territory of the Russian regions,” the Two Majors war blogger said. Factories were damaged in at least three cities, officials and media said.
Roman Busargin, governor of the Saratov region about 450 miles southeast of Moscow, said the cities of Saratov and Engels, on opposite banks of the Volga River, had been subjected to a mass drone attack and there was damage to two industrial sites. Schools had shifted to remote learning, he said.
Ukraine attacked the same region last week and claimed to have struck an oil depot serving an airbase for Russian nuclear bomber planes, sparking a state of emergency being imposed, and causing a huge fire that took five days to put out. The independent Astra news outlet reported a fire at an industrial site in the city of Kazan, east of Moscow, as a result of a drone attack.
