02:54, 18 September 2025

Rosaviatsiya temporarily closed Volgograd Airport.

Volgograd Airport is temporarily suspending flights due to a safety risk. Local residents reported explosions in the skies over Volgograd.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," restrictions on flights from Volgograd were imposed for several hours on the morning of September 13. At that time, a drone attack damaged the building of an emergency hospital.

Volgograd Airport operations have been limited, and aircraft landings and departures have been temporarily suspended, Rosaviatsiya press secretary Artem Korenyako announced tonight. "Restrictions are necessary to ensure flight safety," he wrote on his Telegram channel at 1:17 a.m. Moscow time.

Discussions about renaming Volgograd Airport to "Stalingrad" have been active since the 1990s. However, the airport was only renamed from "Gumrak" to "Stalingrad" after Putin's intervention on April 29, 2025, when he announced his support for the initiative of the veterans and participants of the Second World War, signing a decree on the renaming that same day. At the same time, some citizens strongly opposed the renaming, recalling that under Stalin, 250,000 Stalingrad residents were repressed.

According to the Volgograd airport's online flight board, a flight from Moscow scheduled to land in Volgograd at 4:00 AM Moscow time has been canceled, as has the same plane's return flight from Volgograd to Moscow, scheduled for 5:00 AM Moscow time. Another flight from Moscow to Volgograd is delayed - scheduled for 4:00 AM Moscow time, but not expected until 6:00 AM Moscow time.

Residents of the southern part of Volgograd reported hearing the sound of an engine and a series of explosions in the sky above the city after 1:30 AM Moscow time, between ten and fifteen. "Residents of neighboring settlements are also reporting loud noises," writes the SHOT Telegram channel.

The Volgograd Region Administration has not yet published any comments regarding the drone attack on its official channels.

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