Russia says shot down over 70 Ukrainian drones; child killed in Moscow

Russian air defences have shot down more than 70 Ukrainian drones overnight, local authorities and state media claimed, including 12 in the skies around capital Moscow.

Twelve drones were also shot down in the Moscow region, the capital's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on Telegram.

The drones were destroyed in the Lyubertsy and Ramenskoye districts of the Moscow region, as well as in the Podolsk city district, Sobyanin said.

As a result of the attack, three airports around Moscow suspended flights, according to their websites. Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow also left a child died, Moscow's governor said.

Meanwhile, Ukraine air defence units were engaged in repelling a Russian drone attack on Kiev, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said on the Telegram messaging app.

Drone attacks elsewhere

In the Russian region of Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, "59 enemy aircraft-type UAVs have been intercepted and destroyed", regional Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said on Telegram.

"There are no casualties or damage," he added.

Two more Ukrainian drones were intercepted over the region of Tula, south of Moscow, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

Ukraine and Russia routinely carry out nighttime drone attacks on each other's territory.

Kiev's SBU security services said on Saturday they had struck an ammunition depot in Russia's Voronezh region in a drone attack.

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Source: TRT