Russia and Iraq have resumed direct flights after a hiatus of several months

The Iraqi airline Iraqi Airways has resumed direct flights between Baghdad and Moscow after a several-month hiatus.

The first flight arrived at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on August 4. Going forward, flights will operate twice a week—every Tuesday and Saturday.

The company explained that the decision to resume flights was due to growing demand for direct flights between Baghdad and Moscow.

Source: Russian Ministry of Transport.

On the night of August 1, drones attacked several temporarily occupied cities in Ukraine. According to reports from monitoring Telegram channels, fires broke out in Zuhres, Berdyansk, Luhansk, Dolzhansk, and Sevastopol following the strikes.

As a reminder, the Russian online marketplace Ozon evacuated employees from its logistics center in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan) due to the threat of an attack by Ukrainian drones. After the alert ended, the warehouse resumed normal operations.

On the morning of July 31, drones attacked a warehouse complex in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan, Russian Federation), where the logistics facilities of the Ozon and Wildberries marketplaces are located. Following this, a number of Ukrainian sources reported that strikes on Ozon warehouses might continue.