Ukraine launched overnight Monday to Tuesday more than a hundred drones on Russian territory, targeting Moscow in particular and disturbing the operation of a dozen airports, the Russian authorities said three days before the commemorations of victory over Nazi Germany.
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While the Russian capital welcomes a large military parade in the presence of Vladimir Putin on Friday and about twenty foreign leaders, its mayor Sergei Sobianine said that 19 drones targeting it had been intercepted by anti -aircraft defense.
He added that debris fell on a large avenue south of Moscow, without making a victim.
The Russian media broadcast images of a cracked supermarket showcase and a blackened facade of residential building.
In total, Russia was targeted overnight by 105 Ukrainian drones, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Four capital airports, Chérémétiévo, Domodedovo, Vnoukovo and Joukovski imposed temporary operating restrictions during the night, some temporarily closing their tracks, according to the Russian agency responsible for civil aviation, Rosaviatsia.
The functioning of several other Russian airports had to temporarily interrupted, notably in several large cities on the Volga such as Nijni Novgorod, Samara, Saratov or Volgograd.
The latter is the old Stalingrad, theater of the deadliest battle in history, which had seen the defeat of the 6th Nazi army in 1942-1943 and was considered a turning point in the Second World War.
The governors of the southern regions of Voronej and Penza indicated that respectively 18 and 10 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted in their territory, without making victims.
In the border region of Koursk, an Ukrainian attack injured two teenagers aged 14 and 17 and caused power cuts, said acting governor Alexandre Khinsteïn.
During the night from Sunday to Monday, Russia had indicated that it had intercepted an attack of drones aimed at Moscow, rarely targeted and where life remains almost normal despite the large -scale offensive launched in February 2022 by the Russian army in Ukraine.
On the Ukrainian side, a Russian drone strike left a dead in the Odessa region, according to Governor Oleg Kiper.
Russia said it would observe a three-day ceasefire from May 8 to 10, during the commemorations of victory over Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Ukraine has not clearly said if it intended to follow this truce announced by President Vladimir Putin.
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