07:01, 26 September 2025

Rosaviatsiya has opened the skies over Volgograd.

Temporary restrictions on aircraft departures and landings at Volgograd Airport have been lifted.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," starting midnight today, Rosaviatsia restricted aircraft arrivals and departures from Volgograd Airport due to flight safety concerns.

By morning, restrictions on aircraft arrivals and departures at Volgograd Airport were lifted. Rosaviatsiya representative Artem Korenyako reported this on his Telegram channel at 5:47 a.m. Moscow time.

"The restrictions were introduced to ensure flight safety," he recalled.

According to the Volgograd airport's online flight board, as of 7:00 a.m. Moscow time, two overnight flights from Moscow and the return flights of the same aircraft from Volgograd to the capital have been canceled. The departure of two flights—to Moscow and Sochi—is also delayed, as are arrivals from Moscow and Kaliningrad.

Discussions about renaming Volgograd Airport "Stalingrad" have been active since the 1990s. However, the airport was renamed from "Gumrak" to "Stalingrad" only after Putin's intervention. On April 29, 2025, 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 spoke out sharply against the renaming, recalling that under Stalin, 250,000 Stalingrad residents were repressed. At a meeting with the leaders of the Duma factions on September 18, Putin promised to consider the proposal of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Zyuganov, to rename Volgograd to Stalingrad; social media users expressed dissatisfaction with the new discussion of this topic.

As a reminder, last night, fragments of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) falling in the Seversky District of Kuban caused a fire at the Afipsky Oil Refinery.

In the Rostov Region, drones attacked six districts at once: Taganrog, Azovsky, Matveyevo-Kurgansky, Myasnikovsky, and Millerovsky districts. Drones were also shot down over the regional capital, damaging the facade and windows of a store on Dovatora Street, and damaging several cars in the parking lot.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/415755