Many problems in flights to and from Moscow airports yesterday (22.05.2025). For security reasons the Russian authorities were obliged to suspend the air routes due to Ukrainian drones.
As announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian drones headed toward Moscow Consequently, airlines are canceled by the largest airport in the country, Seremetievo, as well as those in Vnukovo, Domodenovo and Zukovsky.
The Russian Pentagon announced that ‘Anti -aircraft defense intercepted and destroyed a total of 105 Ukrainian drones“, Of which 35 approached Moscow.
The mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin He wrote in a post on Telegram that rescuers are operating in places where debris of enemy drones fell.
Late on Thursday night, he informed that another 11 unmanned aircraft headed to the Russian capital were intercepted.
Ukrainian drones attacked the famous Russian “Patriot Park” located in Kubinka near Moscow.
The “Patriot Park” is a complex themed around Russian military equipment and the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II. It’s the biggest facility of its kind in Russia. pic.twitter.com/YxYiP31pSj
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BREAKING NEWS !!
The enemy is trying to attack Moscow again and again , a series of explosions in Ramenskoye
Air defense forces in Ramenskoye near Moscow are repelling an attack by drones flying toward Moscow.
The video shows the flight and destruction of doons.… pic.twitter.com/YizfU53ser
(@Asm_vz) May 22, 2025
For its part, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces fired 128 drones against the countryof which 112 were dismissed or intercepted by electronic means.
Drone raids armed with explosives are recorded almost daily, more than three years after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, blows to the Russian capital are rare.
So far, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin He has essentially rejected the proposals of Kiev, Washington and their European allies for a truce.
Moscow troops are slowly removing territories from last year, controlling a total of 20% of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean peninsula – which Russia annexed in 2014.
Dozens if not hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, while millions of Ukrainians have been forced to leave cities and villages in the east and southern part of the country.