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At least nine airports in central and western Russia temporarily halted traffic, while the strikes prompted schools in the southwestern Saratov region to close.

He said the attacks were launched from the Engels district in the Saratov region of Russia.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it took down four drones over the Saratov region.

Online videos have shown queues of supporters not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg but also in Krasnodar in the south, Saratov and Voronezh in the southwest and beyond the Ural Mountains in Yekaterinburg.

The Saratov sank in March that year, then the Minsk was wrecked this past September.