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in the morning, forcing around 50 incoming flights to divert at the last minute while another 50 waiting to take off were grounded.that a drone had been downed via electronic warfare in a rural area around 60 miles west of Vnukovo International Airport.
No flights were able to take off from or land at Vnukovo as well as Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky airports, which together handle almost all the capital’s flight traffic. Operations were close to resuming after two hours of disruption before a second was shot down only 25 miles outside the capital, in the Istra District.
The wreckage is believed to have crashed near the home of one of Putin’s most loyal propagandists, who quickly tried to spin the incident into a success for the Russian military. Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of state-owned broadcaster RT, claimed it fell ‘in the street next to us’.Flights in and out of Domodeovo Airport and three other airports were grounded She shared a photo on Telegram of a plume of smoke over a residential area which bore similarities with homes seen in official photos of emergency workers attending the scene.
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