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Car-sharing services will not operate in central Moscow until May 10

May 5, 2023

In central Moscow, use of the car-sharing service will be restricted until May 10 as part of the Victory Day celebration. On this subject reported on the official Telegram channel of the Moscow Ministry of Transport.

“As part of the holding of events in the central part of the city, until May 10, access to short-term car rental services will be limited. In the central part of the city, the lease start and end feature will become temporarily unavailable,” the department said in a statement.

On Thursday, May 4, GPS malfunctions were recorded in central Moscow. In this regard, the Citydrive car-sharing service advised customers not to rent a car inside the Garden Ring, as “cars may not display correctly on the map”. The Baza Telegram Channel reported that Interior Ministry officials in Moscow were told they had “activated a GPS position change” during the rehearsal for the Victory Parade.

On Wednesday May 3, the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, announced that the launching of drones was prohibited in the capital, with the exception of those used “by decision of the state authorities”. Shortly after, the Russian President’s press service reports that on the night of May 3, two Ukrainian drones tried to attack the Kremlin building.

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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings, and named primary sources, corroborating with Reuters, the BBC, and the Kyiv Independent.

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