Russian officials reported Tuesday that more than 140 Ukrainian drones targeted several Russian regions overnight, including the capital Moscow and its surrounding areas, in one of the largest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory in the two-and-a-half-year war.
A drone crashed into two high-rise apartment buildings in the town of Ramenskoye outside Moscow, sparking fires, Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said.
One woman was killed and three others were injured.
Vorobyov said five homes near the damaged building had been evacuated while emergency services processed the drone wreckage.
Following the attack, authorities temporarily closed three airports outside Moscow – Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky.
A total of 48 flights were diverted to other airports, according to Russia's civil aviation agency, Rosaviatsi.
In Moscow, debris from the drone fell on a house on the city's outskirts, but no one was injured, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
He counted more than a dozen drones heading for Moscow, but they were shot down by air defense forces as they approached the city.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it had “intercepted and destroyed” 144 Ukrainian drones in nine Russian regions, including near the Ukrainian border and deep inside Russia.
This is Ukraine's second major drone attack against Russia this month.
The Russian military said on September 1 that it had intercepted 158 Ukrainian drones in over a dozen Russian regions. Russian media reported this was the largest Ukrainian drone attack since the start of the war.
