Early on Sunday morning, about 30 drones were destroyed by the Russian air defense, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
The drones were stopped in areas outside Moscow, in what the Reuters news agency describes as the largest attack to date on the area.
At the beginning of September, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had shot down 144 Ukrainian drones in several regions. 20 of them flew over Moscow in what was then described as the biggest attack on the capital since the start of the war.
Governor Andrey Vorobyov writes on Telegram that a woman was wounded by shrapnel in Sunday’s attack and that two houses caught fire. Several flights were stopped during the morning.
Priority by Ukraine
Ukraine has not yet commented on the incident. But drones are now an important weapon for Ukraine, after losses in the field, write Kyiv Independent.
Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi writes in a Facebook post on Saturday that drones are one of the army’s most important priorities going forward: “Drone technology is developing rapidly and we must stay one step ahead of the enemy”.
On Saturday, sources told the Kyiv Independent that they succeeded in attacking a factory linked to the Russian arms industry in Tula in western Russia. Ukraine also states that it attacked a weapons warehouse in the Russian city of Bryansk during the night, Reuters reports.
Drones and Russian offensive
As the Russian offensive continues in the east, a wave of drone attacks is taking place against cities far from the front.
In the past two months, there has only been a single night that Russia has not sent multiple drones against Ukrainian cities, reports New York Times.
Ukraine has attacked with ten times as many kamikaze drones in the fall compared to last year, President Zelenskyy said earlier this week.
During the night to Sunday, 145 Russian attack drones were fired at Ukraine, which is the highest number so far, according to the president.