MOSCOW, October 22. /TASS/. Air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed a total of 808 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight over Russian regions, the Defense Ministry said.
A nighttime Ukrainian drone attack injured two people in Moscow and one person in Lipetsk.
Kiev’s attempted drone attack on Moscow on Wednesday evening and overnight became one of the largest since the beginning of this year.
TASS has compiled the main details of the aftermath.
Scale
- Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed a total of 808 fixed-wing Ukrainian drones over Russian regions between 8 p.m. Moscow time (5 p.m. GMT) on October 21 and 8 a.m. Moscow time (5 a.m. GMT) on October 22, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
- The Defense Ministry said the drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Leningrad, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula and Yaroslavl regions, as well as the Moscow Region, the Republic of Crimea and the Black Sea.
- The attempted Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow from Wednesday evening into Thursday morning was one of the largest of the year, according to TASS’s analysis of data published by Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on the Max messenger.
- Sobyanin said that 630 drones headed toward the Moscow Region 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 October 22.
- On-duty air defense systems destroyed most of the drones at long range and intercepted 163 on their approach to Moscow.
- Seventy Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Tula Region in western Russia overnight, regional Governor Dmitry Milyaev reported on Max.
- A total of 44 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over the Voronezh Region in southwestern Russia overnight, regional Governor Alexander Gusev wrote on Max.
- About 20 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Lipetsk Region in western Russia, regional Governor Igor Artamonov reported on Max.
- Air defense crews downed 17 Ukrainian drones over the Kaluga Region in western Russia overnight, regional Governor Vladislav Shapsha said on Max.
- Shapsha specified that air defense forces shot down the drones over the Babyninsky, Dzerzhinsky, Zhukovsky, Maloyaroslavetsky, Peremyshlsky, Sukhinichsky, Ulyanovsky, and Ferzikovsky municipal districts, the Kuibyshevsky District, and the outskirts of the city of Kaluga.
- Twelve drones were intercepted over the Oryol Region in western Russia overnight, regional Governor Andrey Klychkov said on Max.
- Ten drones were downed over the Ryazan Region in central Russia overnight, regional Governor Pavel Malkov reported on Max.
Aftermath
- A nighttime drone attack on Moscow injured two people in the capital’s Troitsky Administrative District, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Max.
- Medical and emergency personnel are providing the injured with all necessary assistance.
- A drone attack injured a civilian in Lipetsk, a city in western Russia, regional Governor Igor Artamonov reported on Max.
- The injured person is receiving necessary medical care at a hospital.
- Drone strikes also damaged the windows and facades of several private houses and apartment buildings in various parts of Lipetsk.
- Drone debris struck an outpatient clinic on Merkulova Street in Lipetsk. The building was empty at the time, so no one was injured.
- The outpatient clinic on Merkulova Street will remain closed on Thursday, Lipetsk Mayor Mikhail Shcherbakov said on Max.
- The regional government’s press service later clarified that a drone’s unexploded warhead remained on the building’s roof following the nighttime attack.
- Falling drone debris damaged the roofs and facades of several private houses and apartment buildings, as well as one social infrastructure facility, in a municipal district of the Voronezh Region, Governor Alexander Gusev reported on Max.
- A man injured in the large-scale drone attack on Lipetsk underwent surgery and remains under medical supervision, Shcherbakov later added.
- Drone debris also damaged several passenger cars with shrapnel.
- The attack also damaged power supply networks in another district, which now require repairs.
- Emergency response teams are working at the affected sites.
- A drone attack damaged private homes in the Zaoksky District of the Tula Region and in the city of Tula, regional Governor Dmitry Milyaev reported on Max.
- A drone attack damaged four private houses in the Zhukovsky District of the Kaluga Region, regional Governor Vladislav Shapsha said on Max.
- Drone debris damaged the windows and fence of a private house in the Maloyaroslavetsky District.
- The attack also caused minor damage to a power line serving a settlement in the Dzerzhinsky District.
- Repair crews are carrying out restoration work.