Moscow, drones against airports prevent Putin's landing

Yesterday a barrage of Ukrainian drones caused the closure of Moscow's airports for a few hours, forcing several Russian government planes - including the one carrying Vladimir Putin - to fly over the capital before heading towards St. Petersburg and landing in Moscow only later.

The New York Times reported it, underlining that Putin and members of his government were returning from Turkmenistan. It is not clear which of the planes was carrying Putin: the Russian president in fact has several Il-96-300PUs in his fleet called 'Flying Kremlin'.

The identical aircraft travel together to protect Putin's safety. According to data from FlightRadar24, two of the planes were forced into abnormal flight maneuvers in the airspace around Moscow. The third plane was diverted to St. Petersburg and then reached Moscow later.