St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport was closed for about an hour on Saturday evening for aircraft arrivals and departures, while Russian authorities reported a downed drone over the Gulf of Finland.
Source: Russian service Radio Liberty, Fontanka
Details: Pulkovo Airport was closed for about an hour for the reception and departure of aircraft – the so-called “Carpet” plan was introduced there “to ensure the safety of flights of civil vessels.”
As Fontanka writes, residents of the city of Lomonosov (part of St. Petersburg) complained en masse on Saturday evening in local public pages about a strong roar and explosions in the area of the Bronka port. One of the residents wrote that “some kind of rocket broke into 5 pieces.” In the villages of Dubochki and Lebyazhye, located near the Gulf of Finland, according to eyewitnesses, “houses shook and windows rattled.” A glow in the sky was also reported.
Subsequently, the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, wrote in a telegram that “air targets” were shot down over the Gulf of Finland by air defense systems and published a video of the destruction of an object in the sky, which he later replaced with a screenshot. As Baza notes, the video was without blur and the flight path of the anti-missile missile and the terrain were clearly visible on it.
The Russian Ministry of Defense subsequently reported that air defense systems “destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Leningrad region.” It was not reported whether any damage was caused to objects on the ground.
What preceded: On Saturday night, a loud explosion occurred in St. Petersburg: Russian air defense shot down a drone. According to Russian journalists, as a result of air defense work, a high-rise building was damaged and windows were broken. According to the city health committee, six people sought medical help, one woman was hospitalized.
2024-03-02 20:21:56
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