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Discover the essence of New York City with the Circle Line Best of NY Cruise! Set sail on a 2.5-hour journey along the city's iconic waterways, immersing yourself in the sights and sounds of the Big Apple.

You’ll cruise along all three NYC rivers, pass under 20 bridges and see over 130 of the city’s most iconic landmarks including the full Manhattan skyline, the impressive One World Trade Center, the growing Brooklyn waterfront, the legendary Yankee Stadium, beautiful Gracie Mansion, the stately George Washington Bridge and, of course, an up close look at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island!

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Our world-famous tour guides tell the story of New York City as you journey around the full island and enjoy the best sightseeing experience NYC has to offer!

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Cruise along all three NYC rivers, pass under 20 bridges and see over 130 of the city’s most iconic landmarks including One World Trade Center, Yankee Stadium, and the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island!

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Embark on an enchanting journey with our Circle Line Harbor Lights Cruise, where you'll witness the stunning beauty of New York City's skyline illuminated at night. During this 2-hour scenic cruise, you'll glide along the shimmering waters of the harbor, passing by iconic landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, and Brooklyn Bridge, all aglow with lights.

Have a relaxing evening outside, admiring the stunning evening lights of New York's celebrated towers, memorials, and landmarks. Narrated by informative and entertaining guides, this evening tour aboard NYC's most iconic and state-of-the-art boat is an unforgettable experience.

Sail down the Hudson River passing the colossal Hudson Yards, impressive Chelsea Piers, and the towering One World Trade Center, before rounding the spectacular tip of southern Manhattan and ultimately cruising only a few feet away from the magnificent Statue of Liberty.

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Welcome aboard the Circle Line Landmark Cruise - your ticket to an unforgettable 1.5-hour journey through the heart of New York City. Set sail on the waters of the Hudson River and East River as you soak in breathtaking views of iconic landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, One World Trade Center, and more.

The Statue of Liberty is famous the world over – which is why there are always crowds of tourists waiting in line at her feet.

Nothing beats the view of her and Liberty Island from a boat on the water just 100 feet away. That’s the highlight of this 60-minute cruise.

Your entertaining guide will be a mine of information and stories especially about Lady L and the neighboring Ellis Island where millions of hopeful immigrants first set foot in the USA and much more besides.

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Cruise passengers should be in Bahamas but they’re stuck in Belfast for months

Passengers on a round-the-world cruise have been left stranded in Belfast for the past three months with the passengers all on board as the ship undergoes lengthy repairs.

Villa Vie Residences’ Odyssey was set to leave Belfast for the first leg of its three-year journey on May 30. 

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However, the luxury ocean liner has been plagued by delays including issues with its rudders and the gearbox.

This has meant that passengers, some of whom have paid €810,000 for their lavish cabin, have instead found themselves spending their summer in Belfast rather than Bermuda.

Many of the passengers who now call the city home are from across the world. They are allowed to spend time on the ship during the day but must leave during the evenings.

The company has paid for them to stay in hotels for the time being. Speaking to BBC News , Florida native Holly Hennessey said that she has adapted to the rainy Irish climate.

She said: ‘I’ve never had so much use for my umbrella in my life, and I carry my raincoat everywhere I go.’

Ms Hennessey, a self-described ‘cruise addict’, is travelling with her cat, Captain. 

She said Villa Vie has offered passengers meals and onboard entertainment which is like the cruise experience – except you’re still in the dock.

While Ms Hennessey has stayed put in Belfast, other passengers have used their peculiar predicament to their advantage and taken the opportunity to travel across Europe. 

Since May, Angela and Stephen Theriac have travelled by train across Spain , taken day trips to England and visited Greenland.

Ms Theriac said: ‘We are travellers, and we want to make the most of the place we are in.’ 

The couple have even joked that they might apply for residency in Belfast.

Lanettte Canen and Johan Bodin have been documenting their life on the ocean liner on their social media page, called Living Life on a Cruise.

The pair claim their cabin on the Odyssey will be their home for the next 15-plus years as they gave a detailed video tour of the ship showcasing its amenities.

During their time waiting to say bon voyage from Belfast, they have travelled to Croatia and Sweden for holidays.

Villa Vie Residences CEO Mike Petterson told the BBC that the Odyssey’s round-the-world cruise ship will launch by the end of next week. 

He said: ‘When you’re the first at doing something, you will run into hiccups, but we’re definitely getting there, and although we are late, we will launch.’

‘We’re not focused on the next days or weeks, we are focused on the rest of our lives and what this company will do for the residents and the industry.’

He said it is the first ‘affordable’ residential cruise ship.

Amenities onboard include access to a swimming pool, a theatre and a gourmet restaurant. 

Villa Vie Residences’ website states that the cost of buying a cabin can range from $99,999 (€90,000) to $899,000 (€810,000).

Dr David Austin, from Georgia in the US, told the BBC that he has ‘stopped counting down’ the days until the ship launches.

‘The payoff of seeing the world in this fashion is too great to feel too disappointed with each delay announcement,’ he said.

‘I was committed, having sold my house right before my arrival, and I’ve stayed committed to this adventure with every delay.’

The ship entered dry dock at H&W on arrival and had initially been due to set sail from Southampton on a round-the-world cruise on May 15, but the departure date and port were changed to May 30 from Belfast. However, she’s still in Belfast, three months after arrival. 

Reportedly, new rudder stocks had to be manufactured, which contributed to the delay. The 1993-built ship was floated on July 24 and moved out of the dock to the repair quay on August 2.

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For Generations of Alaskans, a Livelihood Is Under Threat

Something is broken in the economics of the state’s fishing industry and the communities that have long depended upon it. Can Washington come to the rescue?

Trenton Clark, captain of the F/V Liberty, fishes outside Metlakatla, a community that revitalized its fish processing plant this year with help from a startup company. Credit...

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By Lydia DePillis

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Reporting from Petersburg and Metlakatla, Alaska

• Aug. 31, 2024 Updated 8:18 a.m. ET

Petersburg, Alaska, is as pretty a seaside town as any you’ll find across the filigree of fjords and foggy islands that make up the state’s maritime coast. Statuary and floral designs evidence its proud Scandinavian heritage, and bald eagles soar across the narrow strait that separates it from a national forest. It doesn’t have room for the giant cruise ships that disgorge thousands of passengers into Ketchikan and Juneau, but it is perfectly situated for its sustaining industry: fishing.

Norwegian fishermen settled in Petersburg in the 1800s, finding it an ideal jumping off point to pursue salmon, crab and halibut. Hundreds of vessels now dock in there and sell their catch to the two major processors, which head and gut the fish before either canning or freezing it on its eventual path to the dinner table. One of the plants was built more than a century ago, and its owner is the town’s largest private employer.

Few people know the business better than Glorianne Wollen, a fisherman’s daughter who operates a large crab boat in a partnership and also serves as harbor master, working from a tiny desk tucked into a bustling office with a little dog at her feet. A Petersburg native, she’s seen a lot of change.

“In the good old days, the town was very alive with discussion, everybody was involved so everybody had a stake, everybody knew what was going on, things happened in real time,” Ms. Wollen recalled. That buzz receded as boats got bigger and more efficient, pursued more species and stayed on the water for more of the year to maximize their investment.

“It takes two guys to do what 20 used to,” she said. “There’s just fewer of us.”

Last year, however, the local industry faced as deep a crisis as anyone could remember — even those who had seen the ups and downs of fishing for generations.

It wasn’t a lack of fish. With a few exceptions, the runs were nearly as good as they’ve ever been. But toward the end of last summer, nobody wanted to buy them. Processors, having already slashed by half the prices they paid fishermen for salmon, started turning them away entirely.

The reasons are complex. Over the last few years, the $6 billion Alaskan wild seafood market has been mired in a mix of geopolitics, macroeconomics, changing ocean temperatures and post-Covid whiplash that piled on top of long-building vulnerabilities in the business model.

Inflation-weary consumers turned from fish to less expensive protein sources like chicken. The strong dollar and the collapse of the yen made it difficult to sell to Japanese consumers, who have been eating less fish and high-value roe than generations past. And Russia — straining under sanctions to finance its war in Ukraine — began dumping salmon and pollock, the white fish used in fish sticks and filet-of-fish sandwiches, into the U.S. market.

Even for an inherently cyclical industry, the convergence of problems — decreasing industry revenues by $1.8 billion and state and local tax collections by $269 million, according to the Commerce Department — has no historical parallel.

The Ranks of Alaska Fishermen Are Thinning

Across all fisheries, the number of people holding permits who harvest fish commercially each year has fallen precipitously since the 1980s.

“We’ve never seen everything bottom out at the same time,” said Jeremy Woodrow, chief executive of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, a publicly funded nonprofit. “Because of all these different economic factors coming together, all the levers have been pulled down.”

Prices rebounded slightly this year, but the economic pressure remains on everyone from the single-handed gillnet fishing boats to the ships that scoop pollock from the Bering Sea. In the past year, some of the processors sold or idled their plants; another entered receivership.

Now the industry and the communities throughout Alaska that depend on it are trying to figure out a path forward. Fish processors are facing a globalization shock not unlike the one that began to decimate American manufacturing in the 1980s, and they want help to avoid a similar fate.

The federal government has come to their aid in some ways, such as blocking Russian seafood and backing new processors that propose to operate more efficiently. In March, the Alaska Legislature formed a commission to propose ways to rescue the seafood industry, with recommendations due by next year.

In Petersburg, the upheaval has even shifted the historically contentious relationship between independent fishermen and the larger corporations that decide what they are paid.

“It really sends shock waves through the harvesting sector when you see processors go under,” said Nels Evens, the director of the Petersburg Vessel Owner’s Association. “In the last year there’s been a lot of coming into the middle, everyone realizing we all need to survive in order for the industry to survive.”

A Slow-Building Storm

The state of Alaska was founded, in part, on the question of who should profit from the region’s watery bounty.

At the turn of the 20th century, fish processors put traps at the mouths of rivers to catch fish as they returned to their spawning grounds. Canneries were built to feed war efforts and a baby boom. But this indiscriminate harvesting method depleted fish stocks, depriving Alaskans of both their food supply and their livelihoods.

The state’s 1959 Constitution outlawed fish traps after advocacy from Alaska’s fishing communities, who revolted against the Seattle- and San Francisco-based companies that controlled the processors. Alaska’s salmon would instead be harvested by a fleet of yeoman skippers, their boats restricted in size and sophistication.

That purposeful inefficiency spread the wealth that came from the ocean. In the 1970s and ’80s, as a result of careful management and new, state-sanctioned hatcheries, stocks rebounded enough to allow fishermen a decent living.

Salmon Prices Have Been Mostly Flat for Decades

Adjusted for inflation, prices that fishermen are paid per pound of salmon they deliver to processors rose slightly in the 2010s and took a big hit in 2023.

In the 2000s, however, the fisheries confronted an existential challenge: farmed fish, which could be grown year round, without natural fluctuations or a journey from small boat to processor. It’s hard to compete with such consistency in the wild, with high fixed costs and a limited time to deal with what could be either massive volume or a dud of a season.

That didn’t stop a new competitor from getting into the market in 2007. Silver Bay Seafoods, a company started and largely owned by fishermen, built modern plants that could deliver higher-quality frozen fillets. That helped to boost prices and allowed the company to offer other amenities, like health insurance for its shareholders. But it also expanded processing capacity, and within a few years, it started to look as if too many processors were chasing too few fish .

The pandemic initially brought some relief. Stuck at home with more expendable income, Americans bought more seafood. Annual per capita consumption of seafood jumped to 20.5 pounds in 2021, the highest level on record, according to the Commerce Department. But going into 2022, surveys by the food industry association FMI found, inflation-weary consumers got thriftier. It was poor timing for the fishing industry — 2022 also brought an enormous sockeye salmon catch in Bristol Bay.

That created a nasty hangover in 2023. To make matters worse, millions of pounds of pollock and salmon from Russia started showing up on the market . Unlike Alaska, Russia isn’t burdened by restrictions designed to maintain a small boat fleet and prevent overfishing.

Even in the pollock fishery, which is regulated by the federal government and allows larger vessels in order to operate on rough seas farther from shore, Americans are at a disadvantage: By law, their boats must be constructed in the United States. Shipyard capacity is scarce and costs are high, preventing U.S. fishing companies from investing in state-of-the-art equipment that would lower operating costs.

That’s a problem for some private equity investors who bought into the industry in recent years, but it’s also a threat to the Alaska Native communities that have rights to a share of the pollock quota. Harvesting it employs tribal members and funds community services.

Eric Deakin is the chief executive of the Coastal Villages Region Fund, which supports 20 communities on Alaska’s far west coast. Last year’s plummeting pollock prices drained the organization’s reserves, and this year isn’t looking any better.

“If we don’t see some light at the end of the tunnel by the end of next year, we’re going to have to make some deep cuts,” Mr. Deakin said. Anything from job training to transportation equipment could be on the table.

The challenges haven’t stopped. High interest rates weighed on processors, which have to borrow to pay fishermen before they sell the product. Retailers shifted to just-in-time ordering, forcing the factories to hold inventory in freezers longer.

Last year Trident, the country’s biggest seafood company, announced it was selling four plants. Earlier this year Peter Pan Seafoods said it could no longer operate and OBI Seafoods mothballed two plants, leaving some communities with no good options for marketing their catch. Silver Bay picked up several facilities, but even some of its fishermen owners are uncomfortable with the way the industry has consolidated.

“The more buyers there are, the more people can pay for your fish,” said Mitch Eide, a Silver Bay shareholder who fishes across southeastern Alaska. “Even if it is our company, we don’t have to have one company dominating the market.”

Adding to the uncertainty, the Commerce Department is considering whether to list king salmon as threatened or endangered, a move that could make it more difficult to target even the more abundant species. Climate change is also making seasons harder to forecast — not an inviting environment for long-term capital commitments.

“To invest millions to automate your plant, you better know that there’s a stable market 10, 20 years out,” said Quentin Fong, a seafood marketing specialist with the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. “There’s less and less predictability in terms of supply, so I think some of the companies are trying to pull back.”

Fresher Fish, Lower Costs?

Some processors are trying to make an end run around the industry’s increasingly tough math, this time with an assist from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

One of them, Circle Seafoods, is incubating in a Native community on Alaska’s far southeastern tip called Metlakatla, on a sparsely-populated island accessible only by ferry, seaplane, and, of course, by fishing boat.

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The project is the brainchild of Pat Glaab, who designed and built processing plants for other companies before striking out on his own. Circle landed nearly $22 million in U.S.D.A.-backed loans to build a mobile processor on an old oil barge in Washington State, and wanted to start operating in Alaska while it was under construction, to work out kinks in its processes.

Conveniently, the Metlakatla Indian Community had an idle processor that it wanted to revitalize. When it was built 100 years ago, the Annette Island Packing Company was supposed to sustain the town, through both employing residents and buying fish from the local fleet. Its longtime manager retired and another operator pulled out in 2018, forcing the town’s fishermen to sell their catch in nearby Ketchikan.

Circle’s gambit is predicated on delivering better-quality salmon at lower cost than other processors, generating higher demand at an affordable price. The key, according to Mr. Glaab, is to rapidly deep-freeze the salmon whole, preventing any deterioration.

A tall, always-moving former fisherman, Mr. Glaab lives on a boat tied up to the plant’s pilings and works on the “buy line” — where fish are pumped out of ice-filled holds on boats onto a conveyor belt to be sorted — alongside a group of younger staff. They’re there late at night and early in the morning, clad in rubber suits to keep out the fish slime, corralling slippery pinks and chums and sockeyes into separate bins and then on to thousands of freezer trays.

Mr. Glaab’s phone is full of photos of fish slabs in various states of freshness, with some that were frozen and thawed improperly showing large gapes in their flesh. “If you could take that fish and make it really valuable, there’s no single thing you could do that would be better for the economy of Alaska,” Mr. Glaab said.

The approach requires less labor on site than other processors. It also smooths the production cycle so workers can be employed year round, rather than brought to remote locations for a few months in the summer, which is very expensive.

When Circle launches its barge next year, the plan is to turn the upgraded Annette Island plant back over to Metlakatla. Having a local processor would provide employment and keep profits local — the kind of asset that many Alaska towns are worried they could lose.

“We could be buying the majority of our fish again, which would be a huge benefit,” said Albert Smith, Metlakatla’s mayor. After being elected three years ago, he sold his own boat to his son, who now fishes for Circle. Eventually they might buy fish from all comers, Mr. Smith said, but “first and foremost we’ve got to take care of our own and get them the best price possible.”

There is a lot of hope for this kind of model. But it’s not a proven solution.

Another company, Northline Seafoods, has a similar approach. It launched its new barge in Bristol Bay this year, with the help of its own $42 million loan backed by the Agriculture Department. But Northline suffered an electrical fire that briefly halted operations, and many fishermen who had been selling the company fish returned to other buyers.

Circle Seafoods hopes to build up to a fleet of barges to operate at scale. That would probably help fishermen, but also challenge land-based processors that are already struggling. If mobile processing takes off, it could also mean fewer jobs in places like Petersburg.

According to Mark Working, managing partner of the Seattle financial advisory firm Zachary Scott, that might be a necessary trade-off.

“You can’t change things and keep it the same,” said Mr. Working, who facilitated Northline’s financing . “It’s a competitive world. If Alaska doesn’t figure out how to get that great quality product to the consumer, it’s going to cease to exist anyway.”

‘We Don’t Get the Help That They Do’

Even if the technical challenges of consistently delivering perfect fish to market are solved, that leaves international competition, aging capital-intensive infrastructure and consumers who still predominantly opt for other animal proteins — despite, as the fishing industry eagerly points out, seafood’s advantages for human health and the climate.

In recent months, the White House banned Russian fish from being sold in the United States, blunting further price declines. The federal government also bought hundreds of millions of dollars ’ worth of salmon and pollock for food assistance programs to clear out unsold inventory.

But many fishermen and their processors want the federal government to go further than a few food purchases and one-off loans. Historically, the seafood industry hasn’t received the attention bestowed on manufacturing, and has fallen between the cracks of regulators at the Commerce Department and subsidies housed at the Department of Agriculture.

“We compete in the grocery store with both plant and animal producers, and we don’t get the help that they do,” said Julie Decker, president of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association.

If the industry is to move forward on a firmer footing, she argues, it must be more integrated into the safety net that was created for American farmers to maintain domestic food production through the vicissitudes of markets and seasonal conditions. That could mean cheap financing to help processors upgrade their facilities, more funding to market Alaska wild seafood both at home and abroad or higher trade barriers for seafood coming from places like China.

Stabilizing processors is one thing. But fishermen have their own difficult economics to contend with: Fuel, insurance and crews have all gotten more expensive in recent years. Unlike farmers, they don’t have access to subsidized crop insurance that smooths out the bad seasons. Fisheries law provides for aid payments when stocks are disastrously low, but they have taken years to arrive.

Without some help, many fishermen are wondering whether it’s worth it to stay in a business that typically is passed from father to son.

Ross Avila, 44, is a second-generation fisherman who trolls for coho and king salmon. Unlike some other stocks, those have declined in recent years, shortening the periods over which they’re allowed to fish. There’s also only one buyer for trollers in his home port of Ketchikan, and the prices have been disappointing.

“A lot of guys are starting to look at this like it’s a really expensive hobby,” said Mr. Avila, while painting the bottom of his boat, the Patsy. “The industry has changed a lot in the last five years. The cost of everything goes up, and the reward at the end isn’t as lucrative as it could be.”

What Comes Next?

Petersburg has saved its fishing industry before.

In 1965, when the local plant was set to close, fishermen banded together to buy it . They named the business Icicle Seafoods, and it grew to include many facilities and vessels across the West Coast.

But the factors that will determine the ongoing health of the seafood enterprise feel far above their heads.

Icicle was bought by a private equity firm in 2007, and then sold in 2016. In 2020, it merged with the owner of a shuttered Petersburg plant and became OBI Seafoods. The curtailed operations last summer meant fewer workers in town spending money, and delayed payments for fishermen.

In late 2023, Trident announced it was selling Petersburg’s other major plant. A Ketchikan-based processor bought it, but the turmoil has put residents on edge.

Tom Westhoff used to work for Icicle, and a few years ago founded Coastal Cold Storage in downtown Petersburg, catering to a tiny minority of fishermen who market their fish directly to consumers. That can bring higher margins, but retail is a lot of extra work, and the market is limited. Most fishermen are stuck with the prices the commercial processors offer.

“That’s the question: whether the way the industry is structured can afford to pay people to be fishermen. At this point, no,” said. Mr. Westhoff, a ponytailed man who manages a small team hauling in silvery salmon and snowboard-size halibut. “Even some young guys who are quite good at it are driving a truck, because it’s not worth the work.”

The fishing downturn has drained some of the town’s wealth. The local boatyard has been quieter, as captains put off nonessential maintenance. More “for sale” signs have gone up on boats across the docks, but few people are buying, making it difficult for older fishermen to cash out and retire. Lower fish prices meant less tax revenue flowing to the borough and to the harbor.

Petersburg’s 100-year-old grocery and hardware store, Hammer & Wikan, has seen sales drop, especially for the kinds of food and equipment that fishermen usually take with them on trips.

Nobody thinks fishing is going away. But Jim Floyd, the store’s general manager, worries the industry will not fully recover. As president of the local Chamber of Commerce, he’s seeking other ways for Petersburg to keep thriving.

“I told everyone it was going to be a tough year this year, and I don’t see it getting better next year,” said Mr. Floyd, sitting in a board room at the back of the cavernous hardware store, stuffed with both boating gear and tourist wares. “We just need to shift the economy. We can’t be so dependent on one thing.”

An earlier version of this article misstated the surname of the director of the Petersburg Vessel Owner’s Association. His name is Nels Evens, not Evans.

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Lydia DePillis reports on the American economy. She has been a journalist since 2009, and can be reached at [email protected]. More about Lydia DePillis

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Signals Intelligence Center Targeted In Drone Attack On Moscow: Ukraine’s Intel Chief

By Howard Altman

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The head of Ukrainian intelligence told The War Zone that his agency carried out drone attacks on a signals intelligence center and airport near Moscow and a Russian airbase in the Rostov region. In addition, video emerged on social media showing an unsuccessful drone strike near the Olenya Air Base in Murmansk, home of Russian strategic bombers in the Arctic Circle about 1,200 miles from Ukraine.

“We conducted a couple of drone operations today,” Lt. Gen. Kyrulo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR), told The War Zone . 

In addition to the attack on the signals intelligence center, GUR also conducted drone strikes on the Ostafyevo airport in Moscow as well as the Millerovo air base in the Rostov region. In total, about 50 drones were used, Budanov said.

Ukraine 🇺🇦 has launched a massive kamikaze drone attack tonight on multiple locations in Russia, including Moscow, Rostov, Bryansk, and Belgorod pic.twitter.com/KxYh0NBliL — Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) August 21, 2024

Last night Ukrainian drones were recorded in an attack on Moscow. Russian authorities report 11 were allegedly shot down over Podolsk, app 20 miles south of the Russian capital. No further details on an damage etc pic.twitter.com/XyyuIz4sUo — raging545 (@raging545) August 21, 2024

The extent of the damage, if any, at the target locations is unclear at the moment.

“We are checking now,” Budanov told us.

Ostafyevo airport serves multiple purposes for the Russian MoD, but in 2018 a pair of massive circular antenna arrays were constructed there giving the installation an overt strategic signals and/or communications mission. It’s also possible another signals intelligence center at or near the airport, or in the Moscow region overall, was hit instead.

The latest data collected by NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System shows no fires at either Ostafyevo or Millerovo. Budanov did not specify where the signals intelligence center is located.

Russian officials say they shot down all the drones heading to Moscow as well as other regions in the country.

“Over the past night, during an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on targets in the territory of the Russian Federation, 45 aircraft-type UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems on duty,” the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) said on Telegram . The MoD added that “11 UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Moscow region, another 23 UAVs were destroyed over the Bryansk region, six UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region, three over the Kaluga region and two over the Kursk region.”

This was one of the largest drone attacks on Moscow, said the city’s mayor.

“The layered defense of Moscow against enemy UAVs that was created has allowed us to successfully repel all attacks,” Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram . “The Defense Ministry’s air defense forces shot down 10 of them tonight. This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones ever. We continue to monitor the situation.”

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reports that all ten Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow were intercepted, marking the most massive drone attack in the city's history. He says all of the drones were shot down while approaching the capital, neutralized by the city's layered defense… pic.twitter.com/SSahnjWQxy — Tymofiy Mylovanov (@Mylovanov) August 21, 2024

Budanov also told us that a previous Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian airfield resulted in the destruction of a MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor and two Ilyushin Il-76 Candid transport aircraft in an attack on the Savasleika Air Base about 400 miles northeast of Ukraine on Aug. 16. At the time, we reported that the base had been hit by around 10 drones. Video showed a drone’s fiery impact, seemingly close to the flight line (evidenced by the distinctive tail of a Candid).

Savasleyka is a Long-Range Aviation base, with a primary offensive mission, using Foxhounds adapted to carry the Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile, a weapon that has seen sporadic use in the war in Ukraine .

All the target areas attacked overnight have been attacked before.

Moscow has been targeted by Ukrainian drones, including an attack on the Kremlin in May 2023 .

The Millerovo Air Base was most recently attacked in July .

Satellite imagery obtained by The War Zone from that attack showed some damage was inflicted, though the extent was unclear.

The airfield, located less than 20 miles from the border with Ukraine, is home to Su-30SM Flanker multi-role fighter of the 31st Fighter Aviation Regiment as well as Su-35 Flanker-E fighters . The base has come under attack before , beginning just after the start of the all-out invasion.

Ostafyevo airport in Moscow was attacked in April. At the time, the GUR published footage claiming to show a Russian Ka-32 helicopter being set on fire at Ostafyevo. The Ka-32 is not operated by the Russian military, but examples are flown by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and other state organizations.

According to GUR, the Ka-32 was targeted while it sat at the airfield of Ostafyevo. The spy agency claimed that the airfield is jointly operated by the Russian Ministry of Defense and Gazpromavia, the airline of the Gazprom company.

In addition to the drone attacks mentioned by Budanov and the Russian MoD, a drone was shot down near the Olenya Air Base in Murmansk. It’s home to Tu-22M Backfire bombers and serves as a staging location for Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H bombers, which have been launching long-range missiles against Ukraine since the beginning of the all-out war.

“An aerial threat of drone use has been detected in the Murmansk region,” Murmansk Gov. Andrei Chibis said on Telegram . “All necessary measures to improve security have been taken.”

The drone appears to be a converted light aircraft, something you can read more about here . It was shot down over Vysokii (Olenegorsk-2), a small military town located next to Olenya, according to the Barents Observer . The video below shows it flying low over the area, drawing massive fire until it explodes in a ball of flames.

Ukrainian drone shot down in the vicinity of the Olenya strategic bomber base in the Murmansk region in the Russian Arctic, more than a thousand miles from the 🇺🇦border. This is the home of the planes that launch cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine. Source:… pic.twitter.com/pfSglnS5BC — Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) August 21, 2024

Olenya was previously attacked last month. GUR reportedly damaged a Backfire bomber there, according to Ukrainian Pravda . The extreme distance involved with such an attack underlines Ukraine’s suicide drones’ growing reach.

Update 3:19 PM –

Budanov offered more details about the drone strikes on Moscow.

Ostafyevo “was a deceptive target,” he said. “It’s an airfield for transport aviation.”

The signals intelligence center is located in the Podolsk District of Moscow, he explained, which is about five miles south of the airfield.

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