Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that 340 Ukrainian drones were directed toward the area around the Russian capital over the course of a single day, with the vast majority taken down by anti-aircraft defenses well before reaching Moscow.
Writing on the messaging platform Telegram, Sobyanin stated, “Most of them were neutralised by air defence forces on the outer approaches.” He added, “More than 50 enemy drones were destroyed on their way to Moscow.”
Ukrainian drone incursions toward the Russian capital have become a frequent occurrence, and Sobyanin has made a habit of publicly reporting the tallies of intercepted aircraft.
Ukraine has been ramping up strikes against Russian infrastructure, with a heavy focus on the country’s oil industry. On Tuesday, Ukraine’s military confirmed it had launched drone attacks against the Salavat petrochemical complex located in the Urals region and the Afipsky refinery in southern Russia. These repeated strikes on oil-related facilities have led to fuel shortages across Russia.
On the other side of the conflict, Russian forces have intensified their own aerial assaults against Kyiv in recent weeks. Early Tuesday morning, Russia unleashed a combined wave of drones and ballistic missiles on the Ukrainian capital — marking the fifth such assault on Kyiv within the current month alone.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the attack caused damage to 16 locations throughout the city, among them a school and a business. City officials also reported that multiple fires broke out across Kyiv as a result of the strikes.
