{"id":1377441,"date":"2026-04-03T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drone-attack-paralyzes-air-traffic-in-russia-key-airports-closed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:47:03","slug":"drone-attack-paralyzes-air-traffic-in-russia-key-airports-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/drone-attack-paralyzes-air-traffic-in-russia-key-airports-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone attack paralyzes air traffic in Russia: key airports closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of Friday, April 3, unidentified UAVs attacked Moscow and the Leningrad region. The Russian side claims to have shot down some of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that the air defense forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense allegedly destroyed a drone flying towards the capital, and later shot down another one.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Emergency services specialists are working at the site of the debris fall,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p> Due to the threat of air strikes in Russia, the reception and departure of flights at a number of airports, including Vnukovo, Pulkovo, and Tunosh, have been temporarily restricted.<\/p>\n<p> The Leningrad region was also attacked. Governor Alexander Drozdenko said seven drones were allegedly shot down there. Two people were injured in the strikes.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that on the night of Thursday, April 2, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainski-drony-atakuvaly-krym-urazheno-nyzku-ob-iektiv\/\">the Forces of Unmanned Systems, together with the Military District of the Ministry of Defense, struck Russian targets in temporarily occupied Crimea.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As reported, on the night of Sunday, March 29, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drony-znovu-atakuvaly-leninhradsku-oblast-rf-u-portu-ust-luha-spalakhnula-pozhezha\/\">drones once again attacked the Leningrad Region of Russia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of Friday, April 3, unidentified UAVs attacked Moscow and the Leningrad region. The Russian side claims to have shot down some of them. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that the air defense forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense allegedly destroyed a drone flying towards the capital, and later shot down another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1246732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1377441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}