Air-raid warnings issued in 18 Russian regions, including areas 2,000 km from Ukraine
Air-raid warnings were issued in 18 Russian regions on the night of 4-5 May, including the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug located around 2,000 kilometres from Ukraine.
Source: Astra, a Russian media outlet; Ruslan Kukharchuk, Governor of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Details: At least 18 Russia regions issued air-raid warnings due to missile threats overnight, while flight restrictions were introduced at 18 airports.
Kukharchuk and local residents said that an air-raid warning had been issued in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug for the first time on the night of 4-5 May.
The region lies approximately 2,000 km from the Ukrainian border.
Restrictions were introduced at airports in Volgograd, Izhevsk, Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Orsk, Penza, Perm, Pskov, Samara, Saratov, Tambov, Ulyanovsk, Ufa, Cheboksary, Cherepovets and Yaroslavl during the evening and overnight.
Missile warnings also affected 16 other regions: Astrakhan Oblast, Bryansk Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Penza Oblast, Perm Krai, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Republic of Mordovia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, the Republic of Tatarstan, Tula Oblast, the Udmurt Republic and Chelyabinsk Oblast.
Background:
- A Ukrainian missile struck the VNIIR-Progress defence plant in Cheboksary, the capital of Russia's Chuvash Republic.
- Authorities in Russia's Leningrad Oblast reported a drone attack on the night of 4-5 May, which resulted in a fire in the town of Kirishi, home to one of the country's largest oil refineries.
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