09:59, 4 December 2025

Airports in southern Russia have resumed operations after a drone attack.

Grozny, Magas, and Vladikavkaz airports have resumed operations without flight delays. At Volgograd Airport, a flight to Dubai and an arrival from Moscow were delayed.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," Grozny, Vladikavkaz, and Magas airports today did not receive or dispatch flights for the third night in a row. Volgograd Airport also suspended operations. A drone alert was also declared in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Stavropol.

Rosaviatsia has lifted flight restrictions at airports in southern Russia, agency press secretary Artem Korenyako announced on his Telegram channel. Flights resumed this morning at airports in Grozny, Vladikavkaz, Magas, and Volgograd. "The restrictions were introduced to ensure flight safety," he explained.

According to the airports' online flight boards, there are no flight delays at Grozny, Magas, and Vladikavkaz, and flights are operating as scheduled. A flight to Dubai was delayed in Volgograd; the flight was scheduled to depart on the evening of December 3 at 11:20 p.m. Moscow time, with an estimated departure time of 4:30 p.m. Moscow time. The estimated arrival time of the flight from Moscow was also delayed by almost an hour – instead of 10:35 Moscow time, the plane is expected at 11:25 Moscow time.

Drone attack threat alerts have become daily in the Volgograd region, but actual drone attacks are not always preceded by a warning, local residents previously interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" stated.

Kabardino-Balkaria Governor Kazbek Kokov announced the lifting of the drone alert regime on his Telegram channel. Similar announcements about lifting the drone strike threat in the regions were made by Vladimir Vladimirov, head of the Stavropol Krai, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Dagestan.

Discussions about renaming Volgograd Airport to "Stalingrad" have been active since the 1990s. However, the airport was renamed from "Gumrak" to "Stalingrad" only after Putin's intervention. On April 29, 2025, he announced his support for the initiative of veterans and participants of the Second World War, signing a decree on the renaming that same day. At the same time, some citizens spoke out sharply against the renaming, recalling that under Stalin, 250,000 Stalingrad residents were repressed.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/417777