A huge wave of more than 500 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia overnight, killing four people in the Moscow region, authorities said yesterday.
Air defenses shot down 556 drones in more than a dozen regions, including Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Defense said, in one of the largest Ukrainian barrages of the conflict so far.
These interceptions took place across 14 Russian regions, as well as the Crimean peninsula annexed from Ukraine, and the Black and Azov seas, the ministry said, adding that the region around the capital was among the worst-hit.
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“A woman was killed as a result of a UAV [uncrewed aerial vehicle] hitting a private house. One more person is trapped under rubble,” Moscow region Governor Andrey Vorobyov posted on Telegram, adding that the early morning attack also claimed the lives of two men.
“Since 3 o’clock in the morning, air defense forces have been repelling a large-scale UAV attack on the capital region,” he said.
Four people were wounded and infrastructure facilities had been targeted, he added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday vowed to launch more retaliatory strikes, a day after a Russian attack on Kyiv killed 24 people.
Within Russia’s capital, local authorities reported that air defense systems had intercepted more than 81 drones overnight, wounding 12 people.
One of the strikes wounded construction workers at a job site near an oil and gas refinery, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram. “Refinery production has not been disrupted.”
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