Moscow region targeted by 600 drones overnight, three wounded — Official

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Six hundred drones targeted the Moscow region in a sustained overnight assault that wounded three people, the Russian capital’s mayor said on Sunday, as Ukraine steps up long-range attacks into Russian territory.

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Ukraine has been carrying out strikes deep inside Russia in recent weeks, with drone barrages targeting military, industrial and more recently e-commerce warehouses far from the front line in the war that is in its fifth year.

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“From yesterday evening until 6:30 am (0330 GMT) today, 600 drones were flying towards the Moscow region, of which 201 were destroyed in the Moscow region,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on the state-backed MAX platform.

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Sobyanin said in an earlier post that “three people were wounded in the MKAD area and are receiving all necessary assistance”, referring to the area within the city’s ring road.

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Three people were killed and another wounded in Russia’s southern Rostov region, which shares a border with Ukraine, regional authorities said.

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Rostov region governor Yuri Sliusar said three people were killed and one was hospitalised during the overnight assault.

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“Doctors are providing all necessary assistance,” Sliusar said.

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He said Russian forces destroyed more than 150 drones and missiles over three cities and nine districts across the southern region.

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According to Sliusar, the attacks damaged residential and industrial buildings in the Kamensky district.

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Several buildings in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky city suffered roof damage, while windows were blown out in an apartment block and at the city’s railway station, he said.

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AFP

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