{"id":25314,"date":"2024-11-10T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25314"},"modified":"2024-11-10T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T08:30:44","slug":"ukraine-attacks-moscow-with-drones-forcing-closure-of-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/11\/ukraine-attacks-moscow-with-drones-forcing-closure-of-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine attacks Moscow with drones, forcing closure of airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Ukraine has attacked Moscow with at least 25 drones, forcing the temporary closure of two of the city&#8217;s major airports, Russian officials said, in what was the biggest Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian capital to date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the drones were destroyed in the Ramenskoye and Kolomensky districts of the Moscow region, as well as in Domodedovo city, southwest of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow region has a population of more than 21 million, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to preliminary information, there is no damage or casualties at the site of the fall of the debris,&#8221; Sobyanin said on the Telegram messaging app. &#8220;Emergency services are on the sites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ramenskoye district, some 45 km (30 miles) southeast of the Kremlin, was last targeted\u00a0in September in what was then Ukraine&#8217;s biggest attack on the Russian capital, when Russian air defense units destroyed 20 drones.<\/p>\n<p>Rosaviatsia, Russia&#8217;s federal air transport agency, said on Telegram that &#8220;to ensure the safety of civil aircraft flights, temporary restrictions have been introduced on the operation of the Domodedovo and Zhukovo airports,&#8221; starting at 0530 GMT.<br \/>\nIt did not say how long the restrictions would be in force.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Ukrainian drone attacks have set several non-residential\u00a0buildings on fire\u00a0in Russia&#8217;s Kaluga and Bryansk regions overnight, regional governors said on Sunday. The Russian ministry said it had destroyed 17 drones over the Bryansk region.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has attacked Moscow with at least 25 drones, forcing the temporary closure of two of the city&#8217;s major airports, Russian officials said, in what was the biggest Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian capital to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security_","category-headline"],"views":36,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25317,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25314\/revisions\/25317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}