{"id":78928,"date":"2025-05-06T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78928\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:46:09","slug":"ukrainian-drone-attacks-close-moscow-airports-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/78928\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drone attacks close Moscow airports \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attack by Ukrainian drones led to disruptions at 13 Russian airports early Tuesday, Russian media reported, citing Russia&#8217;s air transport safety agency.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Moscow&#8217;s four airports, flight restrictions were imposed at airports in Kaluga, Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Kazan and Nizhnekamsk, the state-owned TASS news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1953421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks hit the Russian capital for the second night in a row as Moscow prepares for Friday&#8217;s Victory Day parade marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. The parade will be attended by leaders of Russia&#8217;s allies, including China&#8217;s Xi Jinping and Brazil&#8217;s Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-cannot-guarantee-safety-foreign-leader-may-9-moscow-volodymyr-zelenskyy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned over the weekend<\/a> that his government could not guarantee the safety of foreign delegations visiting Moscow for Friday&#8217;s parade, despite Putin&#8217;s call for a three-day ceasefire while Russian forces continue to attack Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot be held responsible for what happens on the territory of the Russian Federation,\u201d Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-cannot-guarantee-safety-foreign-leader-may-9-moscow-volodymyr-zelenskyy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The attack by Ukrainian drones led to disruptions at 13 Russian airports early Tuesday, Russian media reported, citing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2594,4328,2106,1395,2595,2000,299,35853,332,5549,38553,1263,657,333,2601,771,335,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-78928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-airports","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-drones","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-safety","18":"tag-sergei-sobyanin","19":"tag-transport","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-vladimir-putin","22":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine","25":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114460490822592903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}