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Murmansk Region Governor Warns of Drone Threat in Region. Local Airport Temporarily Closed
Updated. At 18:40 Moscow time, restrictions on airport operations were lifted. No planes left for alternate airfields, a Rosaviatsia representative said.
An “air threat from the use of a drone” has been identified in the Murmansk region, the head of the region, Andrei Chibis, reported .
According to him, all necessary measures to improve security have been taken. Chibis did not provide any other details.
At the same time, a representative of the Federal Air Transport Agency reported that from 15:38 Moscow time, temporary restrictions were introduced at two airports, Murmansk and Khibiny, to ensure the safety of aircraft.
Former coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Murmansk Violetta Grudina published a video sent to her by eyewitnesses, in which, according to them, a Ukrainian drone is flying in the area of the closed military settlement of Vysoky.
The Telegram channel Mash claims that the Ukrainian drone was shot down by a Russian air defense system.
Russian "war correspondents" suggest that the target of the drone, which covered at least 1,800 kilometers separating the Murmansk region from the border with Ukraine, could have been the Olenya airbase, where the Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 missile carriers are located.
At the end of July, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced a strike on the airfield. GUR representative Andrey Yusov claimed that drones hit a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber.