{"id":595878,"date":"2026-10-30T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=595878"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:35:14","slug":"sobyanin-says-862-drones-were-heading-towards-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/sobyanin-says-862-drones-were-heading-towards-moscow","title":{"rendered":"Sobyanin Says 862 Drones Were Heading Towards Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Moscow Mayor <b>Sergei Sobyanin<\/b> said that more than 800 drones were heading towards the Russian capital overnight.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Between 20:30 on October 29 and 07:30 on October 30, 862 UAVs were heading towards the Moscow region,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sobyanin, most of the drones were intercepted at &#8220;distant defensive lines&#8221;, while 170 were shot down as they approached Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The attack paralysed operations at Moscow&#8217;s airports. They resumed accepting and dispatching flights only in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Russian airlines Pobeda and Aeroflot cancelled flights from Moscow to Minsk that were due to arrive in the Belarusian capital overnight and in the morning. A Red Wings flight from Samara has been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Flight delays and cancellations have also been reported at dozens of airports across Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that more than 800 drones were heading towards the Russian capital overnight. &#8220;Between 20:30 on October 29 and 07:30 on October 30, 862 UAVs were heading towards the Moscow region,&#8221; he said. According to Sobyanin, most of the drones were intercepted at &#8220;distant defensive lines&#8221;, while 170 were shot down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ae448b7b0336.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Sobyanin Says 862 Drones Were Heading Towards Moscow"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595880,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595878\/revisions\/595880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}