# More than 30 Moscow-bound planes diverted to other cities

https://mins.news/en/item/98809

- TASS, 2026-10-13 22:29 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://tass.com/economy/2201653

> More than 30 flights bound for Moscow were diverted because of security restrictions at the capital’s airports. Nineteen planes unable to land at Vnukovo arrived instead in Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Pskov and Istanbul.

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