Drone attack in St. Petersburg causes nearly 100 flight delays, cancellations
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Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:17:00 +0300

According to The Insider, citing the airport’s online departure board, the last flight landed at Pulkovo at 7 a.m., while the final takeoff was recorded at 6:10 a.m.The governor of Leningrad Oblast announced via Telegram that a UAV threat had been declared in the region’s airspace, and a partial disruption of mobile internet signals was possible.Later, he reported that air defense systems had reportedly shot down more than a dozen drones.Media outlets also noted that a flight from Ufa to Pulkovo was diverted to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, where passengers have been held onboard for two hours with no access to anything but water. On July 27 drones targeted a power substation near a railway in the village of Oktyabrsky in Russia’s Volgograd region.
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