Russia under drone attack: Russian Defence Ministry claim air defence has downed over 300 UAVs

Russian authorities have reported a large-scale drone attack targeting several regions of the country, with the Russian Defence Ministry claiming that their air defences have destroyed 317 drones. The authorities have not specified how many UAVs reached their targets.

Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agencies RIA Novosti and RBC; Astra, a Russian media outlet; Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin; Cheboksary Mayor Stanislav Trofimov

Details: Sobyanin said that Russian air defences had downed 11 drones heading towards Moscow overnight.

"Emergency services are working at the sites where debris fell," he added.

Cheboksary, the capital of Russia's Chuvash Republic, was also targeted. The city is home to the VNIIR-Progress defence plant, which had come under attack on 5 May.

Trofimov said schools had switched to remote learning.

The Russian Defence Ministry also claimed that drones were intercepted over Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Novgorod, Oryol, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula and Moscow oblasts as well as Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Adygea and the Republic of Kalmykia. Drones were also downed over temporarily occupied Crimea and above the waters of the Sea of Azov, the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

Russian media outlets reported that temporary flight restrictions had been introduced at Yaroslavl, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Izhevsk, Kaluga, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports.

Background: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russia had violated the ceasefire introduced by Kyiv from the beginning of 6 May, adding that Ukraine would respond in kind.

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