A woman has died and three people have been injured. Several buildings have suffered extensive damage. It is one of the largest Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil since the war began.
More than 140 ukrainian drones They attacked several Russian regions during the night, including the capital, Moscow, and its surroundings, as confirmed this Tuesday by the Russian authorities, in one of the biggest drone attacks Ukrainians on Russian soil in the two and a half years of war.
In the town of Ramenskoye, on the outskirts of Moscow, the drones reached two residential buildings several floors and started fires, according to the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov.
Fatalities and evacuated buildings
a woman died and three other people were injured. Five residential buildings near one of the crashes have been evacuated while emergency services deal with the wreckage of the drone, Vorobyov said.
The attack also led authorities to temporarily close three airports located on the outskirts of Moscow: Vnukovo, Domodedovo y Zhukovsky. A total of 48 flights were diverted to other airports, according to the Russian Civil Aviation Authority Rosaviatsia.
More than a dozen drones heading to Moscow
In Moscow, debris from a drone fell on a private house on the outskirts of the city, but no one was hurtaccording to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. counted more than a dozen drones heading to Moscow and that they were shot down by air defenses as they approached the city.
In total, the Ministry of Defense Russian claimed to have “intercepted and destroyed” 144 Ukrainian drones over nine Russian regions, including border with Ukraine and those located further into Russia.
It is the second massive attack of Ukrainian drones against Russia this month. On September 1, the Russian Army said it had intercepted 158 Ukrainian drones over a dozen Russian regions in what Russian media described as the biggest Ukrainian drone bombing since the beginning of the war.
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