Ukraine launches massive drone attack on Moscow: mayor

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Ukraine launches massive drone ******* on Moscow: mayor

Ukraine has launched one of the largest-ever drone attacks on Moscow, the city’s mayor says, with Russian air defence units destroying 11 drones flying towards the capital.

Some of the drones were destroyed over Podolsk, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, a city in the Moscow region some 40km south of the Kremlin.

“This is one of the largest attempts to ******* Moscow using drones ever,” Sobyanin said on the Telegram messaging early on Wednesday.

The ******* comes as Russia – while advancing in eastern Ukraine – struggles to push Ukrainian forces out of its Kursk region, two weeks after they smashed through Russia’s western border in the largest invasion of Russia since World War II.

No injuries or damage were reported after the attacks, Sobyanin said.

Ukraine has often launched one or two drones targeting Moscow in recent months, causing no substantial damage.

The Wednesday *******, however, seems larger than May 2023 ******* when at least eight drones were destroyed over the capital in an ******* President Vladimir ****** said was Kyiv’s attempt to scare and provoke Russia.

Russian officials rarely disclose the full size of the attacks, reporting only drones that its air defence units ********.

Both Ukraine and Russia also rarely disclose the full extent of the damage their attacks inflict, unless residential or civilian infrastructure is damaged or civilians ****.

The Wednesday ******* on Moscow was part of a broader Ukraine’s drone ******* on Russia, with the Russian defence ministry saying its air defence units also destroyed 23 drones over the border Bryansk region.

Six drones were destroyed over Belgorod, another Russian region on border with Ukraine, three over the Kaluga region, which borders the Moscow region to its northeast, and two over the embattled Kursk region, the ministry said.

No casualties or damage were reported on the border Bryansk region in Russia’s southwest, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz wrote on Telegram.

Russia’s RIA state news agency reported that two drones were destroyed over the Tula region, which borders the Moscow region to its north.

Separately, Vasily Golubev, governor of the Rostov region in Russia’s southwest, said air defence forces destroyed a Ukraine-launched missile over the region.

In recent months, Kyiv has stepped up its air attacks on Russian territory, saying its aim is to ******** infrastructure key to Moscow’s war efforts.

It also says its attacks are in response to Russia’s continued strikes on Ukrainian territory.

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