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Russian aviation authorities briefly shut down all four Moscow airports after intercepting 59 drones amid ongoing drone attacks linked to the Ukraine conflict.
Russian aviation authorities temporarily closed the four airports serving Moscow on Monday following the interception of a large number of drones in the city's airspace.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced via the Telegram app that 59 drones had been destroyed during the incident.
The drone attacks were launched by Kyiv in response to Moscow's shelling of Ukrainian cities, although Sobyanin did not specify whether the drones originated from Ukraine.
The Russian authorities reopened the airports at 5:39 a.m. local time (02:39 GMT).
On Sunday, fuel sales at stations in Crimea were suspended following Ukrainian drone strikes that resulted in four fatalities. A fifth person died aboard a ferry traveling between the peninsula and Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on X that their long-range strikes targeted the occupiers' military logistics, oil industry, and air defense systems.
He detailed that facilities on both sides of the Crimean Bridge were hit, including maritime logistics sites used for oil transport in the Krasnodar region, as well as an oil depot in temporarily occupied Kerch.
Zelensky further noted that military logistical infrastructure was successfully struck, alongside four radar stations linked to S-400 systems and two Pantsir systems.
Sergey Aksyonov, head of the local authority in Crimea, confirmed that four people were killed and 28 injured in the Kerch area due to the Ukrainian drone attack.
