Pulkovo Airport shelters passengers and staff after drone attack

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Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg has restricted flight arrivals and departures and moved passengers and staff to safe areas to ensure security, according to an airport statement on Saturday. The airport said it acted "operationally" to shelter people and will continue updating passengers as new information becomes available. The measure follows a reported drone attack in the region. Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko said 95 drones were shot down, with debris falling on a private home near Kirovsk, an apartment building in Vsevolozhsk, and damaging four cars in Lomonosovsky District.


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