Russia says Moscow hit by Ukrainian drones, flights suspended - VIDEO
Russia said on Tuesday that it intercepted at least 15 drones targeting Moscow overnight, causing fires in residential areas, resulting in one fatality, and leading to the suspension of over 30 flights.
More than 60 drones were also downed over Russia's southwestern region of Bryansk, which borders Ukraine and the Lipetsk region in Russia's south, regional governors said. There was no damage or casualties reported there, News.Az reports citing Reuters.Ukraine's domestic drone industry has been growing rapidly and Kyiv has been stepping up drone attacks on Russian energy, military and transport infrastructure.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on the Telegram messaging app that at least 15 drones were downed around Moscow, with emergency crews dispatched to several sites across the region and near the Zhukovo airport and to the Domodedovo district - home to one of the Moscow's largest airports.
Massive #DroneAttacks on #Moscow and other #Russian cities
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According to Russian media and officials, Moscow, Moscow, Lipetsk, Kaluga, Bryansk, Tula regions were attacked.
There is a fatality (in Moscow) and injuries, as well as multiple destruction of objects. pic.twitter.com/UOvu3ixc2C
Russia's RIA agency reported that both the Domodedovo and Zhukovo airports were closed for air traffic following the suspension of more than 30 domestic and international flights there and at other airports that serve the Russian capital.
The overnight drone attacks damaged at least two high-rise apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region, setting several flats on fire, Moscow's governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Telegram.
A 46-year-old woman died and three people were injured in Ramenskoye, Vorobyov said. He added that 43 people were evacuated to temporary accommodation centres.
The Ramenskoye district, some 50 kms (31 miles) southeast from the Kremlin, has a population of around quarter a million of people, according to official data.
Russia's SHOT and Baza Telegram channels, which are close to Russia's security services, posted videos with flames coming out from a multi-storey residential building, saying that five flats were destroyed in the drone attack in the Ramenskoye district.
Authorities of the Tula region, which neighbours the Moscow region to its north, told Russian state news agency that a drone wreckage fell onto a fuel and energy facility, but that "technological process" of the facility was not affected.
Tuesday's attacks follow a deluge of drones Ukraine launched in early September targeting chiefly Russia's energy and power facilities.
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