Rosaviatsia opened airports in Sochi and Krasnodar

The restrictions imposed overnight on airport operations in Sochi and Krasnodar have been lifted.

"Caucasian Knot" reported that air defense forces repelled a drone attack and missile attack in Sochi last night. Resort residents heard sirens and explosions. Sochi Airport was closed to aircraft, and additional restrictions were imposed at Krasnodar Airport.

Early this morning, restrictions on aircraft arrivals and departures were lifted at Sochi and Krasnodar (Pashkovsky) airports.

"The restrictions were imposed to ensure flight safety," Rosaviatsiya spokesman Artem Korenyako recalled on his Telegram channel at 6:18 a.m. Moscow time.

During the period of the restrictions, one aircraft flying to Sochi was diverted to an alternate airfield.

As a reminder, on the night of September 13, restrictions were imposed on aircraft arrivals and departures at Volgograd and Gelendzhik airports, and then at Astrakhan and Krasnodar airports. In the morning, the restrictions were lifted.

As a reminder, on September 24, after drone and unmanned boat attacks on Novorossiysk and Tuapse, two people were killed and 14 others were injured. In Novorossiysk, nine of the 12 injured were hospitalized, and three more received outpatient care. In Tuapse, two people were hospitalized in moderate condition, one of them a minor.

That day, people in Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Gelendzhik, and Sochi were ordered to leave beaches and embankments due to the threat of drone attacks from the sea and air. However, in Sochi, some vacationers returned to the sea, despite the fact that the threat of drone attacks was not cancelled. Social media users called this behavior reckless.

Civilians in the coastal areas of Kuban resorts risk becoming accidental victims in attacks by drones and unmanned boats, so the evacuation of vacationers from the beaches was a justified precautionary measure, experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" confirmed.