Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: Russia’s Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg on Tuesday morning temporarily suspended all flights before resuming them amid unconfirmed local media reports of an unidentified object like a drone in the area.
The administration in Russia‘s second city announced the closure of Telegram without providing a reason for the suspension.
Flight resumed
Russian news outlets reported later that flights had restarted and that a temporary airspace ban within a two-hundred-kilometer radius of Pulkovo had been lifted.
The news agency RIA Novosti had earlier reported that an unidentified object had been seen, prompting the closure of the airport.
Unconfirmed media reports from two online local news outlets reported that fighter jets had been sent to investigate. They later said that the planes had not found anything.
