Anti-aircraft defenses have shot down a dozen drones in Moscow, which suffered on Tuesday night one of the largest attacks by enemy drones since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, the Moscow mayor announced on Wednesday, Sergei Sobyanin.

According to Sobyanin on Telegram, last night’s event is “one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow” with unmanned aircraft.

The first drone heading to Moscow was destroyed in the vicinity of the capital at 3:02 a.m. local time and the other nine during the next hour and a half. The mayor said that the situation is “under control“.

According to preliminary data, the fall of fragments of downed drones has not left any victims or material damage.

It is not the first attempt at an attack

The previous attempt to attack Moscow with a drone took place last July 11th, when an unmanned aircraft was shot down inStupinoalmost 100 kilometers south of the megalopolis. Meanwhile, on the day of the presidential elections in Russia, the March 17thMoscow suffered an attack by five drones without reaching their target. The Russian Ministry of Defense has reported for its part the Neutralization of 45 drones last night11 of them in the Moscow region.

More than 30 dead in Ukrainian attack on Krusk region

Meanwhile, Russian medical services have risen to 31 the number of civilians killed and 143 wounded The Ukrainian military has confirmed the death of 31 people as a result of the Ukrainian offensive launched on August 6 in the Kursk region. “According to the data from the morning of August 21, 31 people have been killed as a result of the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region,” said a spokesman for the medical services, quoted by the official Russian agency TASS.