AFP: Russia repelled air attacks by Ukraine overnight, shooting down a drone near Moscow and missiles over the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, officials said yesterday.
“In the town of Podolsk an attack by a drone flying toward Moscow was repulsed by air defences,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, adding that according to preliminary information there were no victims or damage. The defence ministry said in a statement that it had shot down a drone near Moscow and intercepted another in the northeastern region of Leningrad, the region surrounding Russia’s second city of Saint Petersburg that has up to now rarely seen such attacks.
Since the spring of 2023, Moscow and its surrounding eponymous region has regularly been targeted by Ukraine’s drones, most of which have been shot down.
Russia has carried out attacks across Ukraine since launching what it calls a special military operation against the neighbouring country in February 2022.