Posted on 07/20/2025 2:26:01 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
UKRAINE unleashed chaos at Moscow’s four airports with a fourth successive drone blitz rocking the city.
Hundreds of passenger planes had to be diverted as waves of flying bombs converged on the Russian capital.
Footage showed explosions as Russian air defences attacked incoming unmanned planes in Zelenograd, a district 23 miles northwest of the Kremlin.
Ukraine has stepped up assaults since Donald Trump reportedly told Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky it was time to make Russians feel “the pain” of war.
Russia's defence ministry claimed to have downed 93 Ukrainian drones overnight across nine regions - 19 of them over the Moscow area alone.
Authorities were forced to twice close airspace over Moscow, hitting airports Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky.
A total of 134 planes were diverted, as confusion and frustration gripped passengers caught up in the escalating fallout of the war.
State airline Aeroflot was forced to adjust its schedule, while regional airports in Kaluga, Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod were also thrown into disarray.
Frustrated passengers - including tourists on summer vacations - were hit by delays, diverted flights and numerous cancellations in an apparent new tactic by Ukraine to paralyse air travel in Vladimir Putin’s capital.
Passengers — many travelling for summer vacations — were left bedding down on the airport floor.
Debris sparked fires that damaged buildings and set vehicles alight, according to local reports.
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Please stop triggering the Putinistas! I’m getting a bellyache from laughing at their posts!
Russia’s Rapid Pokrovsk Operation. Ukrainian Sources Are Panicking. Big Advance In Kharkiv.
Have you called off your Jihad against President Trump yet?
You overrate both the system and the system operators...no surprise here.
Four Patriot Missile Launchers and Air Defence Radar Destroyed By Russian Strike in Ukraine
The Patriots are not used to take out Shaheds. Ukraine uses a mix of cheaper systems: Stinger, IRIS-T SLM, NASAMS, AMRAAM-ER, anti-aircraft guns, electronic jamming, and even interceptor drones
Do you have VPN and know how to use it? Eventually, this news sill seep into your consciousness. The Finns have not pivoted to driving their exports over land routes, due to a lack of logistics, but their canal access is curtailed.
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