Private homes damaged during drone attacks in Volgograd Oblast

At least two private homes were damaged in the Kalachevsky District of the Volgograd Region during a drone attack. Volgograd Airport is temporarily closed to flights.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," passengers at Volgograd Airport have experienced lengthy flight delays since the morning of January 6. Rosaviatsiya suspended operations at Volgograd Airport on the evening of January 5; the restrictions remained in effect throughout the night, with two flights diverted to alternate airfields during this time.

Two private homes in the village of Ilyevka in the Kalachevsky District of the Volgograd Region were damaged as a result of a drone attack on the evening of January 7, Volgograd Region Governor Andrei Bocharov reported.

Bocharov did not specify the exact damage to the houses. According to him, local residents were not injured. "There are no casualties. Emergency services and municipal officials are working to eliminate the consequences and assess the damage," the official Telegram channel of the Volgograd Region reported.

Between 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM Moscow time on January 7, one Ukrainian drone was shot down in the Volgograd Region, and another was destroyed over the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on its Telegram channel.

Volgograd Airport has been closed to flights since 10:47 PM Moscow time. "The restrictions are necessary to ensure flight safety," Artem Korenyako, a representative of the Federal Air Transport Agency, wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to the Volgograd airport's online flight information, at least six flights have been delayed since the evening of January 7: two to Moscow, one each to St. Petersburg, Surgut, Novosibirsk, and Kazan. Flights from Surgut, Kazan, St. Petersburg, and Saratov have also been delayed.

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 intervened on April 29, 2025, when he declared 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 thousand Stalingrad residents were repressed.