A man looks at a flight information board at the departure zone of Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia December 30, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File photo

Russian airport halts flights, "reasons beyond airport's control"

Landings and takeoffs at Moscow's Vnukovo airport were restricted on Tuesday morning "for technical reasons beyond the airport's control," Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency said.

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04 Jul 2023, 7:01 am

(Reuters) - Landings and takeoffs at Moscow's Vnukovo airport were restricted on Tuesday morning "for technical reasons beyond the control of the airport," Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, or Rosaviatsiya, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Restrictions were in place until 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), the agency said. It added that a number of flights were diverted to other airports.

It also said that other Moscow airports were functioning normally.

It was not immediately known whether the changes were related to a number of drones being intercepted early on Tuesday near Moscow.

(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)