{"id":1453959,"date":"2026-10-17T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainian-drones-blocked-traffic-at-russian-airports\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:20:51","slug":"ukrainian-drones-blocked-traffic-at-russian-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukrainian-drones-blocked-traffic-at-russian-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones blocked traffic at Russian airports."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the night of October 17, all Moscow airports were closed due to a Ukrainian drone strike. More than 350 flights were delayed or canceled at Moscow airports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Rosaviatsiya, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and Zhukovsky airports were closed from approximately midnight until 7:00 AM. Flights scheduled to arrive at these airports were diverted to other cities. Passengers waiting for flights in Moscow were forced to sleep on the floor and even resort to praying for their departure. Sheremetyevo Airport suffered the most delays and cancellations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1453959-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1453959-2\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2_3T7i1Kk8.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2_3T7i1Kk8.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2_3T7i1Kk8.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>In addition, restrictions were introduced at the airports of Kaluga, Sochi, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Penza, Saratov, Cherepovets and Gelendzhik.<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of October 17, most restrictions were lifted, but they still remained in place at some airports in southern Russia.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, in early 2026, Ukrainian officials developed a plan for an operation using drones with artificial intelligence to<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/hundreds-of-ai-drones-ukraine-was-preparing-a-large-scale-operation-to-block-moscow-airports\/\"> block civilian air traffic in Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">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 October 17, all Moscow airports were closed due to a Ukrainian drone strike. More than 350 flights were delayed or canceled at Moscow airports. According to Rosaviatsiya, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and Zhukovsky airports were closed from approximately midnight until 7:00 AM. Flights scheduled to arrive at these airports were diverted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1453951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1453959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453959","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453961,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453959\/revisions\/1453961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}