More than 60 drones targeted Moscow overnight, the city’s mayor said Tuesday, marking another major aerial attack on the Russian capital as Ukraine intensifies its long-range weapons campaign.Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscriptionGet exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.A satellite communications center was hit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X, adding that it was used for reconnaissance and for coordinating the activities of Russia’s forces in Ukraine.
Describing it as a “large-scale attack,” Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in a post on Telegram that air defenses had “destroyed 61 drones approaching Moscow,” without specifying where they had come from.Emergency services were working at crash sites but did not report any casualties, he said.The assault on Moscow was part of a broader overnight wave of drone attacks across Russia.
The Russian Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 419 Ukrainian drones over 18 regions, including the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula off southern Ukraine.Andrey Vorobyov, the governor of the Moscow region, said on his own Telegram channel that a 6-month-old died and three people were injured when “a private house caught fire” after a drone crashed into it in Yegoryevsk, a small town around 100 miles to the southeast of the Russian capital.Vorobyov said an administrative building in Dubna, about 69 miles north of Moscow, was damaged by falling drone debris.Scenes from social media footage obtained by Reuters show bystanders at the scene of the drone attack in Yegoryevsk, about 60 miles southeast of Moscow on Tuesday.
via ReutersThe attacks also briefly disrupted operations at Moscow’s Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports, according to Russia’s federal aviation agency, Rosaviatsiya.Zelenskyy said on X that his military struck the Dubna satellite communications center in the Moscow region.He added that the facility which sits around 310 miles from the Ukrainian bo...