Warning to pilots over Russian ash-clouds

Two volcanoes have erupted on Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, tossing massive ash clouds miles into the air, forcing flights to divert and blanketing one town with thick, heavy ash.

The Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Eurasia’s highest active volcano, exploded yesterday along with the Shiveluch volcano, 45 miles to the north east, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry’s branch in Kamchatka said, adding that flights in the area had to change course.