Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said overnight Ukrainian drone attacks killed two people and injured nine. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said more than 650 drones were launched and most were downed.
Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Tuesday that overnight Ukrainian drone attacks killed two people and injured nine more. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Ukraine launched more than 650 drones and that most were shot down.
Just Security's Early Edition and a Democracy Now roundup both carried the regional officials' figures. A warehouse fire was also reported. Independent casualty verification beyond the officials' statements was not available Tuesday morning.
The strike was described as Ukraine's second-largest drone attack on the Moscow area. It followed Ukrainian claims that a Russian drone sank a ship in Romanian waters in the Black Sea, a separate incident not confirmed in the Moscow statements.
Ukraine has said it is targeting Russian military and energy infrastructure. Kyiv has claimed it has degraded a large share of Russian refining capacity; that claim was not restated in the Moscow regional notices.
Russian authorities did not announce a change in air-defense posture on Tuesday. Further overnight alerts remained possible as the war continued.
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- Regional officials reported deaths and injuries in the Moscow area.
- Ukrainian statements framed the strikes as pressure on Russian military and energy targets.