MOSCOW : Most of the over 400 drones that targeted the
Moscow region overnight were intercepted, but at least two people were wounded,
authorities said Monday, reports BSS.
Kyiv has in recent months intensified its strikes on
Russian territory, describing them as retribution for more than four years of
bombardments against its territory.
“From 8:30 pm (1730 GMT) until 5:00 am, more than 400
enemy drones were flying in the direction of Moscow region. Most were
neutralised by air defence forces at distant approaches. 85 UAVs were destroyed
on approach to Moscow,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on the state-backed MAX
platform.
Capital region governor Andrey Vorobyov reported damage in
Podolsk, Domodedovo and Odintsovo, saying that private houses and civilian
infrastructure was hit.
“According to preliminary information, one person was
wounded in Domodedovo as a result of a fire at a private house, and another on
the M-4 highway, where a drone fell near a vehicle,” Vorobyov said.
Domodedovo Hospital also reported on Monday that six
people, including three foreigners, were hospitalised with blast wounds in the
Moscow region.
It was unclear if those injuries were the same ones
described by the governor, and whether they were linked to the drone attacks.
Domodedovo is to the south of Moscow and home to an
international airport serving the Russian capital.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “Russia carried out one of its largest ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv” the night before, which killed one person and wounded 16.
