All airports in Moscow were shut down due to a drone attack
On the night of June 22, Russian authorities reported a massive drone attack on Moscow and several regions of the Russian Federation. According to Russian officials, 59 drones were allegedly destroyed as they approached the capital.
Due to the drone attack, operations at Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky airports were temporarily suspended.
The restrictions applied to both incoming and outgoing flights, but were lifted by morning.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that a total of 301 Ukrainian drones were shot down or intercepted overnight.
According to Russian reports, the drones were allegedly destroyed over:
- Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, and other regions of the Russian Federation,
- the Moscow region,
- the Krasnodar Krai,
- as well as over the temporarily occupied Crimea,
- and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas.
Earlier, Russian sources reported other massive drone strikes on Moscow and the Moscow region, including an attack during which approximately 200 drones were allegedly detected.
At that time, there were reports of a fire at an oil refinery in the Kapotnya area, 17 casualties in various cities in the Moscow region, and the death of an 8-year-old girl.
The Russian side traditionally refers to such attacks as “the largest since the start of the war,” but there is currently no independent confirmation of the claimed scale.
This was reported by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who announced that the first drones were shot down at 3:02 a.m. and the last ones at 5:07 a.m. local time.
In the temporarily occupied city of Armiansk, located on the Crimean Peninsula, a building belonging to the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation caught fire as a result of a nighttime drone attack.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine will continue to intensify long-range strikes on Russian territory and expand the capabilities of its own drones.
