Restrictions at Volgograd airport lifted
Volgograd airport resumed normal operations after drone attacks in the region. Flights from Sochi and Moscow are delayed.
As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, late in the evening of August 13, restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft were introduced at the Volgograd airport for the second time in 24 hours . Drones attacked Volgograd for the second night in a row, and as a result of the new attack a fire broke out on the territory of the Volgograd Oil Refinery.
On August 13, the Ministry of Defense reported that 11 drones were shot down in the Volgograd region overnight. drone debris fell on the roof of a 16-story building on Opolchenskaya Street in Volgograd. Residents of the building were evacuated, but during the day the authorities allowed them to return to their apartments.
The restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft from the Volgograd airport, introduced on the evening of August 13 for security reasons, have been lifted, Artem Korenyako, an employee of the press service of the Federal Air Transport Agency, reported at 4:30 Moscow time today.
According to him, aircraft heading to Volgograd did not go to alternate airfields during the period of restrictions. “Aircraft crews, air traffic controllers and airport services have taken all necessary measures to ensure flight safety,” he wrote in his Telegram channel “Representative of the Federal Air Transport Agency.”
According to the online board of the Volgograd airport, the arrival of a flight from Sochi and two flights from Moscow is delayed, as well as the departure of two planes to Kaliningrad and two to Moscow.
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