Moscow airports temporarily closed after Ukraine drone attacks

A sustained Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Russia caused Moscow's large airports to beryllium temporarily closed and saw astatine slightest 140 flights cancelled, officials said.

More than 230 Ukrainian drones were downed implicit Russia since Saturday greeting - including 27 implicit the superior - according to the Russian defence ministry.

According to Russia's aviation watchdog, the 4 large airports serving the superior were disrupted and much than 130 flights besides had to beryllium redirected. All person since resumed mean operations.

Meanwhile, astatine slightest 3 radical were killed during Russian aerial strikes connected Ukraine overnight, according to determination officials.

Russia's Association of Tour Operators (Ator) said connected Sunday that Moscow airports were closed 10 times successful 24 hours owed to the strikes.

The Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow, was besides affected. Russia's defence ministry said it had intercepted 45 drones since Saturday morning, resulting successful Kaluga International Airport besides being temporarily closed.

Russia's defence ministry said drones were besides changeable down implicit regions adjacent the Ukrainian borderline including Rostov and Bryansk, arsenic good arsenic implicit the Black Sea. No fatalities were reported.

This is not the archetypal clip that Ukrainian drone attacks person caused question disruption successful Russia. In May, at slightest 60,000 passengers were stranded astatine airports crossed the state aft Kyiv launched much than 500 drones successful a 24-hour period, according to Russia's defence ministry.

Regional officials successful Ukraine said 2 radical died aft Russian aerial strikes successful antithetic parts of Donetsk, portion a 78-year-old pistillate died aft residential buildings burned down successful Sumy.

Ukraine's aerial unit said it changeable down 18 retired of 57 Russian drones overnight into Sunday, portion a further 7 drones were mislaid aft their radars were jammed.

As good arsenic Sumy and Donetsk, different front-line areas of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk were attacked, arsenic was Zaporizhzhia.

The latest attacks travel arsenic the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was acceptable to determination towards a bid colony with Ukraine but that Moscow's precedence was to "achieve our goals".

"President Putin has repeatedly spoken of his tendency to bring the Ukrainian colony to a peaceful decision arsenic soon arsenic possible. This is simply a agelong process, it requires effort, and it is not easy," helium said successful a televised interview.

It has been astir three-and-a-half years since Moscow launched its full-scale penetration of Ukraine.

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky projected a caller circular of talks with Moscow, aimed astatine restarting negotiations that halted past month.

Previous attempts by Russia and Ukraine to negociate an extremity to the warring person failed to execute a ceasefire, but person resulted successful captive swaps.

Zelensky besides repeated his readiness to conscionable Russia's Vladimir Putin face-to-face, saying: "A gathering astatine the enactment level is needed to genuinely guarantee peace."

Ukraine was this week fixed a boost erstwhile US President Donald Trump - who has successful the past often expressed enactment and admiration for Russia's person - announced that the US would nonstop "top-of-the-line weapons" to Ukraine via Nato countries.

Trump besides threatened Russia with terrible tariffs if a woody to extremity the warfare is not reached wrong 50 days, and later told the BBC that helium was "disappointed" with Putin but "not done".

Reacting to this successful Sunday's interview, Peskov said: "Everyone has grown accustomed to his [Trump's] alternatively harsh and straightforward rhetoric.

"At the aforesaid time, helium reaffirms his volition to proceed doing everything imaginable to facilitate a peaceful settlement."