Ukraine overnight tried to attack Moscow with dozens of drones, Russian authorities said Sunday, just a day after Ukrainian officials reported that Russia had launched its most intense drone attack on Kyiv since the start of its full-scale war in 2022.
Russian air defenses downed at least 24 drones in the Moscow region – which surrounds but does not include the capital – and four other regions in the south and west, the Russian Defense Ministry and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported in a series of Telegram updates.
Neither referred to any casualties.
Andrei Vorobyev, the governor of Moscow region, wrote on Telegram that the drone strike damaged three unspecified buildings there, adding that no one was injured.
A drone crashed into a 12-story apartment block in the western Russian city of Tula, about 180 kilometers (113 miles) south of Moscow, lightly injuring one resident and causing limited damage, local Governor Aleksei Dyumin wrote on Telegram on Sunday morning.
Russian authorities reported that Ukraine tried to attack Moscow overnight with dozens of drones.AP The governor of Moscow region declared that three buildings were hit and no one was injured.AP
Moscow’s Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports were also briefly closed due to the drone strike, according to Russian-run news agency Tass.
Both appeared to have returned to normal operations by 6am local time, according to data from an international flight tracking portal.
Russia’s Telegram channel speculated that the Ukrainian military had used a previously unseen type of drone in the alleged attack, showing some similarities to the Iranian-made weapons Moscow has routinely used in its attacks on Ukraine.
A Russian Telegram channel pointed out similarities between the recent Ukrainian drone attacks and the Iranian-made drones used by Russia.AP
The Russian capital has been attacked from drones regularly since May, with Russian officials blaming Ukraine.
Military analysts commented at the time that the initial strikes used locally made Ukrainian drones that could not carry payloads as heavy as the Iranian-made Shahed used by Russia.
As of late Sunday morning, Ukrainian officials had not acknowledged or commented on the attack, which came a day after Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital with more than 60 Shahed drones. A
At least five civilians were injured in the hours-long attack, which saw several buildings damaged by debris from the downed drone, including a kindergarten.
Those injured included an 11-year-old child, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Ukraine’s air force earlier Sunday said it had downed eight of nine Shahed drones shot down by Russian forces overnight.
Also on Sunday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that two Soviet-made S-200 rockets fired by Kyiv were shot down over the Sea of Azov, which stretches between Crimea and the Russian-occupied southeastern coast of Ukraine.
Russia usually uses Iranian-made Shahed drones.AP
According to local news sources, air raid sirens were heard earlier in Russian-annexed Crimea, which on Friday came under what Russian officials called a major drone strike.
Road traffic was also temporarily halted on Sunday morning across the 19-kilometer (12-mile) bridge that connects Crimea to mainland Russia.
There were no reports of deaths, and no comment from officials in Kyiv.
Elsewhere, the Russian-occupied eastern part of Ukraine was left without power following a nighttime Ukrainian attack on a thermal power plant in the Donetsk region, a local official stationed in Moscow reported on Sunday’s Telegram.
Russian-occupied areas of Eastern Ukraine are without electricity after a thermal power plant in the Donetsk region was hit by a Ukrainian strike.AP
According to Denis Pushilin, who heads Russia’s illegally annexed region last year, the attack on the Starobesheve plant knocked out electricity in the occupied parts of Donetsk and Mariupol cities, along with other nearby areas.
On the outskirts of Donetsk, Russian troops continued their attempts to advance near Avdiivka, the eastern city that has been a Ukrainian stronghold and battleground since the start of the war, according to a report by the Ukrainian General Staff and an analysis by the Washington – Institute for the Study of War.
Ukraine’s General Staff on Sunday morning said Kyiv’s troops had over the previous 24 hours repulsed Russian attacks northeast, west and southwest of Avdiivka, as Moscow’s forces scrambled to encircle the city.
Paramedics provide psychological assistance to residents of an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, AP
Several Russian bloggers also made unconfirmed claims that Ukrainian troops had begun withdrawing from the industrial zone on the southern flank of Avdiivka, although others said that Russian troops did not have full control of the area.
This claim could not be independently verified.
Russian strikes killed two civilians in the Donetsk region on Saturday and overnight, Ukraine’s acting Governor Ihor Moroz reported on Telegram on Sunday morning.
In the same period, Russian shells wounded one person in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, which borders Russia, according to a Telegram update by the Ukrainian regional military command.
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