OREANDA-NEWS The departure of 34 flights is delayed at Sochi International Airport due to restrictions that were imposed last night to ensure the safety of flights of civil aircraft.

According to the airport's online scoreboard, as of 8:30 on Wednesday, "Aeroflot" flights en route to the airport of the Moscow air hub are delayed for departure.

"Russia Airlines" flights to Yekaterinburg, Samara, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Perm, Omsk, Ufa, Izhevsk, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk and Tyumen; Red Wings to Saransk; S7 to Novosibirsk; "Pobeda" to Cheboksary and Tyumen; "UTair" were delayed," to Ufa; Nordwind to Kazan, Kirov, Omsk; "Aeroflot" to Samara; "Ural Airlines" to Yekaterinburg.

The departure of several international flights - "Iraero" to Antalya (Turkey) and Red Wings to Batumi (Georgia) is delayed.

Temporary restrictions on the reception and departure of aircraft to ensure flight safety were introduced at Sochi airport last evening and were lifted on Wednesday morning. Sochi Mayor Andrey Proshunin reported on his channel in the Iach that a threat of attack by unmanned boats (BEC) was announced in the city.