MOSCOW, October 22. /TASS/. Last night and on Wednesday evening, Moscow came under one of this year’s heaviest drone attacks, calculations by TASS based on official data from the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, showed.
According to him, between 8:30 p.m. Moscow time (5:30 p.m. GMT) on October 21 and 4:00 a.m. Moscow time (1:00 a.m. GMT) on Thursday, as many as 630 UAVs flew toward the Russian capital. The larger part of them was destroyed by air defense forces at distant approaches, and 163 drones were neutralized as they approached Moscow, Sobyanin specified. Two people were injured near Voronovo in the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky Administrative Districts southwest from downtown Moscow, he added.
The largest ever enemy drone attack targeting Moscow was repelled on the night of September 19 when air defenses downed more than 1,600 UAVs, of them 450 approaching the city, Sobyanin said earlier.