Key points
- Flight delays and cancellations in St. Petersburg due to the threat of UAV use have affected ground transportation.
- Tickets for trains and buses from St. Petersburg to Moscow are sold out, and the only way to get out of the city to Moscow is by taxi or rideshare.
Flights cancelled in Russia due to UAV danger / Photo from Russian media
Due to the danger of using UAVs, several flights were delayed and cancelled at the St. Petersburg airport. There are also problems with ground transportation.
The threat of using drones on July 6 was also announced in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. This was reported by 24 Kanal , citing Russian Telegram channels.
Russia has problems with public transport
As Russian media write, it is currently impossible to get from St. Petersburg to Moscow either by rail or by plane. People could not buy train tickets, because they were sold out so quickly that they even had to increase the number of carriages.
Tickets for bus routes have also been bought up en masse for several days in advance. There are no tickets for commuter trains until the morning either. Therefore, Russians can only get from one city to another this evening by hitchhiking or taxi, at a very high cost.
Rosaviatsiya noted that flights were delayed or cancelled due to the threat of drone attacks. The restrictions affected 287 flights at Russia's main airports. 171 flights were cancelled at Moscow's Sheremetyevo, 90 at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo, and 26 at Strigino (Nizhny Novgorod).
Flights to Ivanovo, Kaluga, Pskov and Tambov are also temporarily not being serviced. The restrictions were applied to ensure flight safety. Russia fears a possible repeat drone attack. Traffic was stopped at the airport in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the evening due to an attack by at least 8 UAVs, which were allegedly shot down by Russian air defense.
