More Than 40 Ukrainian Drones Attacked Moscow In Half A Day

Airlines canceled or delayed more than 200 flights.

The Russian capital has been subjected to the longest Ukrainian drone attack since at least May, writes The Moscow Times.

The Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported the arrival of the first drones at 7 p.m. on September 22, and the destruction of the last five after 11 p.m. on September 23. Thus, in about 16 hours, air defense systems (air defense systems) shot down 41 drones in the Moscow region.

According to the Defense Ministry's summary, 69 drones were intercepted overnight. They were destroyed over Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov regions, in the Moscow region and over occupied Crimea. However, the ministry did not indicate how many drones were shot down on the approach to Moscow. Sobyanin noted that emergency services specialists are working in the places where the debris fell, but did not say anything about the consequences on the ground. The sounds of explosions the night before were heard by residents of Odintsovo and Sergiev Posad districts of the Moscow region, as well as the capital's districts of Konkovo, Kuzminki, and Chertanovo. In Reutov near Moscow, according to Baza, the wreckage of a drone fell on a parking lot, damaging four cars. It was not specified whether people were injured.

With the drone attack, Sheremetyevo airport temporarily stopped work. There were also flight delays at Vnukovo and Domodedovo. In total, airlines canceled or delayed more than 200 flights. Some of the airplanes flying to Moscow were sent to alternate airfields in St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanovsk, Izhevsk and Samara. On the morning of September 23, Aeroflot said it was continuing to work to "stabilize the schedule" and planned to return to normal operations by the end of the day. "With passengers of canceled and delayed flights are being worked on at all departure airports," - assured the airline.

Before that, the most protracted attack of Ukrainian drones on Moscow lasted two and a half days: from the evening of the 20th to the morning of May 23. During that time, air defense forces shot down 109 drones on their approach to the capital. As a result, more than a hundred flights were delayed, which led to a transportation collapse, and mobile Internet service was limited in the regions of Central Russia.

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