Flights at all major Moscow airports have been temporarily suspended for safety reasons after a Ukrainian drone attack, Russia’s aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, said on Thursday.
Authorities said 180 Ukrainian drones had been shot down over Moscow.
This comes Drones belonging to First Corps Azov streaked across the sky above the city’s strategic seaport last week in an operation that targeted electrical substations, repair facilities and a sanctioned ship and plunged the port into a blackout, according to Kyiv’s military.
Reuters was able to confirm the location of parts of a video of the attack posted by the corps.
The attack was part of Ukraine’s expanding strike campaign targeting Russian military logistics deep behind the front line, in a bid to grind down Moscow’s war machine and swing the war in Kyiv’s favour.
Col. Arsen Dmytryk, First Corps Azov’s chief of staff, told Reuters there would be dozens more such operations to showcase the unit’s capabilities, technology and planning.
(Reuters)
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