Russia reports large-scale drone attack on Moscow

Russia has claimed that about 300 Ukrainian drones attacked the country during the past day, including 65 UAVs that were heading towards Moscow.

Source: Russian Ministry of Defence; Kremlin-aligned Russian news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS

Details: The ministry claims that Russian air defence destroyed 280 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs over the territories of Bryansk, Kaluga, Belgorod, Tver, Smolensk and Kursk oblasts, as well as Krasnodar Krai and the Moscow region, between 11:00 and 21:00 Moscow time.

Among them, the Russian Ministry of Defence said, were 47 UAVs flying towards Moscow.

RIA Novosti reported that restrictions had been introduced at Moscow's Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports.

Later, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that another 15 UAVs heading for Moscow had been downed.

According to calculations by TASS, the UAV attack on Moscow was the largest since the beginning of the year – Russian air defence has supposedly destroyed 65 drones since the start of the day.

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