The Russian air force shot down at least 194 UAVs targeting the capital, and more than 550 were intercepted across the country.
Moscow is facing another major Ukrainian drone attack, with Russian air defenses destroying at least 194 UAVs targeting the capital at once, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has said.
The attacks were largely thwarted by air defense systems, which continued to engage incoming drones around the city on Thursday morning, according to Sobyanin.
Several drones arrived at the Moscow Oil Refinery in the city’s southeastern Kapotnya district, the mayor said. Firefighters have been dispatched to the site.
Debris from the downed UAV caused minor damage to a building in the Sadovod shopping center in southeast Moscow, according to Sobyanin. No one was injured in the incident, he said.
All four of Moscow’s international airports were forced to suspend flights during the raid, Russia’s air transport agency, Rosaviatsia, said.
In the Moscow Region, a drone crashed into an apartment building in the city of Zhukovsky, Governor Andrey Vorobyev said in the Telegraph. There were no injuries and residents have been evacuated from the building, he said.
A woman was slightly injured after UAV debris fell on the roof of her house near the city of Eletrostal, about 58 kilometers east of the capital, according to the governor.
A car also caught fire in the city after being hit by drone debris, he added.
The roof of the Belaya Dacha store on Moscow’s Ring Road, east of the capital, caught fire from a drone attack, Vorobiev said. The management of the store later announced that it was temporarily shutting down.
Debris from drones fell in several places in the nearby town of Lyubertsy, according to the governor.
Private homes were also destroyed outside the city of Chekhov, about 50 kilometers south of Moscow, he said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said more than 550 UAVs had been shot down across the country since Wednesday evening. The meetings were held in Moscow, Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Vladimir, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Orel, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula, Rostov, and Ryazan regions, as well as in Crimea and on the Sea of Azov, it said.
One person was killed and two others were injured in a drone attack on the town of Gukovo in Rostov Region, according to Governor Yury Slusar.
The Ministry of Defense in Moscow said on Thursday that Russian forces carried out another strike overnight against energy infrastructure linked to the Ukrainian military in response to the terrorist attacks in Kiev.
An oil depot outside Kiev and a refinery in Poltava Region were hit by missiles and drones, it said.
