Rosaviatsiya has closed Volgograd Airport.

Volgograd Airport is temporarily not accepting or dispatching aircraft, Rosaviatsiya reported. A no-fly zone has been declared in the Volgograd Region for the second time in 24 hours.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on January 1, dozens of flights were delayed at airports in Volgograd, Astrakhan, Krasnodar, and Sochi due to safety restrictions.

Aircraft arrival and departure at Volgograd Airport have been temporarily suspended, Rosaviatsiya spokesman Artem Korenyako reported today.

"Temporary restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft have been introduced. The restrictions are necessary to ensure flight safety," he wrote on his Telegram channel at 5:53 PM Moscow time.

At 5:02 PM Moscow time, residents of the region received a message from the Russian Emergency Situations Service (RSChS) stating that a drone threat had been declared in the Volgograd Region. This is the second time this day that this regime has been implemented; previously, it was in effect in the Volgograd Region overnight and in the morning, from 3:06 AM to 7:14 AM Moscow time, according to the Volgograd News Telegram channel.

Commentators on the Volgograd and Region News Telegram channel gave conflicting answers to the administrator's question about whether they had received another drone threat notification. "No," Ilona stated, posting a screenshot of her inbox. "They send them every day. Threat, cancellation, threat, cancellation," Marina wrote. "The internet has been down all day, and they've only just come to their senses and sent this," Irina noted.

According to the Volgograd airport's online flight information board, two flights from St. Petersburg and four from Moscow are delayed, with return flights also delayed.

Discussions about renaming Volgograd Airport "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 declared his support for the initiative of the veterans and participants of the Second World War, signing a decree on the renaming that same day. However, some citizens strongly opposed the renaming, recalling that under Stalin, 250,000 Stalingrad residents were repressed.