Missile menace declared in Russian areas for first time over Flamingo strike

For the primary time for the reason that begin of the struggle in Ukraine, a missile menace was declared concurrently in at the least 13 Russian areas, most of which aren’t border areas, on 27 February.

Supply: The Moscow Occasions, an unbiased Amsterdam-based information outlet

Particulars: Authorities in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Udmurtia, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Saratov, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Rostov and Kursk oblasts, in addition to Perm Krai, warned of a doable missile assault. In at the least eight of those areas, a missile menace warning was declared for the primary time.

In some areas, together with Almetyevsk, public transport was quickly suspended. Evacuations of scholars have been reported in Kazan and Izhevsk, in addition to of employees at Kurumoch Airport in Samara.

Russian propagandists, citing the Chuvashia authorities, claimed that one Ukrainian Flamingo missile had been shot down over the republic, whereas one other "modified course and left the area".

In response to the Shot Telegram channel, two Flamingo missiles have been downed in Chuvashia. In the meantime, the Radar po vsey Rossii ("Radar throughout Russia") Telegram channel claimed that three missiles have been intercepted: one in Udmurtia, one in Perm Krai, and one "shot down over the Sea of Azov close to town of Taganrog".

Later, Russia's Emergencies Ministry introduced the cancellation of the missile menace regime in 9 areas of the Volga Federal District.

Background:

• In October 2025, The Economist reported that Ukraine had begun utilizing its domestically produced Flamingo missiles to strike targets inside Russia and was producing two to a few missiles per day, with plans to extend output to seven per day by the top of October.
• On 25 February, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that each one FP-5 Flamingo missiles launched throughout a strike on the Votkinsk Machine Constructing Plant in Russia's Udmurt Republic had reached their goal, demonstrating their "top quality and accuracy".

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