The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had shot down “seventy Ukrainian drones” on Sunday morning, almost half of which were in the Moscow region, an unprecedented attack on the capital in terms of its scale since the start of the conflict in 2022.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Telegram that it had “foiled an attempted terrorist attack by the kyiv regime”, by destroying a total of 70 drones in the morning, including 34 in the Moscow region.
The others were shot in the Moscow-bordering regions of Kaluga (7) and Tula (2), and in three border regions of Ukraine: Bryansk (14), Oriol (7), Kursk (6).
For its part, Ukraine was targeted last night by an attack by 145 Russian drones, a “record”, affirmed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a message on X. The army specifies that 62 of these 145 drones were neutralized over 13 regions of the country.
Four days after a Russian attack on kyiv
Describing on Telegram a “massive attack”, the governor of the Moscow region, Andreï Vorobiov, affirmed that the interceptions had taken place in particular above the towns of Ramenskoye and Domodedovo, around forty kilometers south-east of the center of Moscow and close to airports.
This operation in the suburbs of Moscow comes four days after a massive Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital, targeted almost daily for a month.
kyiv says it is carrying out its strikes on Russia, which usually mainly target energy sites, in response to the deadly Russian bombings which have destroyed its infrastructure and devastated its cities since Vladimir Putin launched the large-scale assault on Ukraine. in February 2022.
Moscow, far from the Ukrainian border
Russia reports shooting down Ukrainian drones over its territory almost daily, but they rarely target the Russian capital, located some 500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
On Sunday, a 52-year-old woman was injured by shrapnel, burned to the face, neck and hands, and two houses were set on fire, said Governor Andrei Vorobiov.
Russian air authorities suspended flights departing and arriving from three airports for almost two hours: Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky. Located southeast of the capital, the last two are near the places where drones were shot down.
On September 10, Russian authorities announced the death of a woman during a Ukrainian strike that hit a residential building in the town of Ramenskoye, southeast of Moscow.
In August, the Russian capital also suffered “one of the most significant” attacks from Ukraine with around twenty drones intercepted, according to its mayor, Sergei Sobyanin.
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