The Russian Ministry of Defense has closed the airspace over the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region, according to a NOTAM (NOtice To Air Missions) notification.
The flight ban is in effect from Monday, August 4, to Friday, August 8. The military department itself has not yet commented on the situation.
Kapustin Yar is a missile test site in the north-eastern part of the Astrakhan region. The facility was created in 1946 as the State Central Test Site of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the USSR for testing missile weapons - the first Soviet ballistic and anti-aircraft missiles.
According to open sources, the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) was launched from Kapustin Yar.
Earlier www1.ru reported that the rate of delivery of Su-57 fighters to the Russian Aerospace Forces has increased.
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