Ukraine hits Moscow with biggest drone attack and first death since start of war

Russian anti-aircraft defense systems shot down a Russian missile on Monday night. 144 Ukrainian drones in various regions of Russia, 20 of them on the outskirts of Moscowwhere A woman died and three other people were injured as a result of the attack, local authorities reported. It is about One of the largest Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory in the entire war and the worst against the Russian capital.

“A 46-year-old woman has died (the death of a 9-year-old boy was previously reported, but not confirmed),” Moscow Region Governor Andrei Voroviev wrote on his Telegram channel, adding that three injured people had to be hospitalized.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, anti-aircraft defenses shot down 20 drones over the Moscow region last night, an attack that forced the suspension of operations at three airports in the Russian capital.

Rosaviatsia, Russia’s federal agency for civil aviation, lifted the suspension, which was put in place shortly after midnight and forced 48 flights to be diverted to other airports, at 07:58 local time (04:58 GMT).

According to the Defense report, published on Telegram, half of the drones shot down in the last hours, 72, were intercepted over the region of Bryanskbordering Ukraine.

Russian anti-aircraft defenses destroyed 52 Ukrainian drones over seven other regions of the country.

Attacks on Ukrainian soil

Ukrainian air defenses shot down 38 of the 46 Shahed kamikaze drones launched by Russia against Ukrainian territory early Tuesday, the Ukrainian Air Force reported.

Russia has also launched an Iskander-M missile and a Kh-31P missile against Ukraine in recent hours, but they could not be intercepted by Ukrainian defenses, according to the Air Force report.

Air defenses were activated during the attack in the Ukrainian regions of kyiv and Chernihiv (north), Kirovograd, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava (center), Sumi and Kharkiv (northeast), Mikolayiv, Odessa and Kherson (south) and Zaporizhzhia (southeast). )