Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said 59 Ukrainian drones had been destroyed on approach to the city in the early hours of June 22.
City authorities began reporting downed drones at 3:02 a.m. Moscow time. Sobyanin reported the last one destroyed at 5:07 a.m.
Sobyanin reported no casualties or damage from the attack.
Update. On the morning of June 22, Sobyanin said an additional 11 drones had been shot down on approach to Moscow.
The capital region’s four major airports — Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky — suspended operations overnight because of the drone attack. Restrictions on arriving and departing flights were lifted by morning.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defense forces shot down and intercepted 301 Ukrainian drones overnight, bringing them down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Rostov, Tambov, Tver, Tula, and Smolensk regions, the Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai, occupied Crimea, and the waters of the Azov and Black seas.
In the early hours and morning of June 18, Moscow and the Moscow region were attacked by nearly 200 Ukrainian drones. It was the largest attack on the Russian capital since the start of the full-scale war. A refinery caught fire in Kapotnya. In various cities of the Moscow region, 17 people were injured and an eight-year-old girl was killed as a result of the overnight attacks.
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