Moscow chokes as thick smog sparks health concerns

DOZENS of flights were delayed and worries grew over public health yesterday as Moscow choked in the worst smog in living memory.

The smog has been blown over the Russian capital from spreading wildfires.

The city’s iconic landmarks like the Kremlin towers and the wedding-cake Stalin-era skyscrapers were completely obscured from a distance as the acrid smoke that has suffocated the capital for days showed no sign of shifting.