Kurumoch Airport ‘evacuates passengers and staff’ over ‘missile threat’
Samara’s Kurumoch Airport in Russia was forced to evacuate all passengers and staff after a possible “missile threat” was announced in the area, causing disruption to both arrivals and departures
Samara’s Kurumoch Airport evacuated all passengers and staff (file)(Image: Wikipedia )
An international airport had been forced to evacuate all passengers and staff over a possible threat.
Samara’s Kurumoch Airport in Russia said an organised evacuation was carried out today (August 6) over a potential “missile threat”.
In a statement posted on Max, a Russian social media platform, the airport said: “After the missile threat was announced, the airport conducted an organized evacuation of passengers and staff to ensure safety.”
According to Russian News Agency Tass, Temporary restrictions were also in place on the arrival and departure of aircraft to the airport. The airport’s online flight status board now shows all flights “suspended” next to all flights., including those scheduled for tomorrow (August 7).
Large parts of Kyiv on fire on Wednesday morning (Image: AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
The missile alert was sounded in the area Samara at around 10am local time and it was not only the airport but schools and medical facilities also launching safety protocols. Russia and Ukraine continue with attacks on each other over the past few days with the war looking no closer to ending.
It comes a Russian media has claimed over 600 Ukrainian drones were shot down over 19 regions of Russia last night.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, between 8:00pm on August 5 and 8:00am on August 6, air defense alert forces intercepted 605 Ukrainian UAVs. It is beleived it is these drones that prompted the airport evacuation in Samara.
It has not only been Kurumoch Airport thrown into flight chaos as Russian media have reported disruption and multiple airports across the country.
This morning temporary restrictions on aircraft arrivals and departures were put in place at Kirov (Pobedilovo), Perm (Bolshoye Savino), Orenburg, Penza, Tambov (Donskoye), Saratov (Gagarin), Yaroslavl (Tunoshna), Sochi, Ivanovo (Yuzhny), Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk (Baratayevka), Bugulma, Kazan, Nizhnekamsk (Begishevo), Ufa, Samara (Kurumoch), and Izhevsk.
Firefighters put out a fire after Russian missiles hit a warehouse in Kyiv earlier this week(Image: AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
It comes a day after Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded 44 others, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Russia fired 24 ballistic missiles, four other missiles identified as either hypersonic Zircons or supersonic Oniks, and 115 drones, many of them jet-powered, in the attack.
Also on Wednesday, the director of a drone factory in the Urals was badly wounded when his car exploded, the Russian state Tass news agency reported.
Zelenskyy said the Russian strikes mainly targeted warehouses belonging to civilian businesses, as well as infrastructure and a railway station, hitting sites that he described as “with no connection to the war” — including a brewing company, building materials warehouses and civilian logistics facilities.
The two-hour attack was the latest in a series of large-scale Russian ballistic missile strikes that have become near-routine this summer.
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