Drone attack makes Armenian premier`s plane land at Saint Petersburg 

ArmInfo. . Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's plane was unable to land in Moscow due to closed airspace and diverted to an alternate airfield. The overnight  drone attack delayed more than 170 flights at Moscow airports.

According to Baza, Pashinyan's plane circled over the Tver region for  almost an hour, awaiting landing permission, but it was never  granted. Ultimately, the plane was diverted to Pulkovo Airport, where  it landed around 1:00 a.m. The Armenian Prime Minister was flying to  Moscow after a visit to Germany and planned to attend a meeting of  the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Intergovernmental Council.

The Moscow region experienced one of its largest attacks in recent  memory - air defenses shot down 32 UAVs overnight. According to  residents, explosions were heard overnight in Zelenograd, Ramenskoye,  Odintsovo, and Dubna-where the booms continued into the early  morning, along with the sound of drones flying overhead.

Four Moscow airports-Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and  Zhukovsky-were placed on lockdown. More than 170 flights were  delayed, canceled, or diverted. A significant number of flights were  eventually diverted to the alternate airfield at Pulkovo. Two  international flights circled over the Vladimir region for over an  hour and a half: one plane was diverted to St. Petersburg, the other  remained in the air.  Passengers at Vnukovo greeted the dawn in the  terminal: people had spread out camping mats, laid out boxes, and  occupied benches-sleeping right there in the airport.

The attack also affected other regions. 118 drones were destroyed in  the Bryansk region, 40 over the Kaluga region, 27 over the Tula  region, 19 over the Novgorod region, 11 over the Yaroslavl region, 10  over the Lipetsk region, 6 over the Smolensk region, 5 over the Kursk  region, 5 over the Oryol region, 4 over the Voronezh region, and 2  over the Ryazan region, according to the Ministry of Defense of the  Russian Federation.