MOSCOW (Voice of Russia): The Russian capital Moscow and the Lipetsk region came under Ukrainian drone attacks. According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, from Wednesday evening to Thursday morning 630 drones flew toward the Russian capital, most of which were destroyed by Russian air defense systems far from the city. Two people were injured in Moscow’s southwestern area, while in Lipetsk one civilian was injured and several residential buildings were damaged.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement on the messaging app Max that from 8:30 pm on the night of October 21 to 4 am on October 22, a total of 630 unmanned aerial vehicles flew toward the Russian capital.
He said Russian air defense forces destroyed the large majority of the drones at a considerable distance from Moscow, while 163 drones that approached the capital were also shot down.
According to official figures, this was one of the largest drone attacks targeting Moscow this year.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said two people were injured as a result of the drone attack near Voronovo, in the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky administrative districts in southwestern Moscow.
According to the Moscow mayor, the largest drone attack on the Russian capital so far was carried out on the night of September 19, when Russian air defense systems shot down more than 1,600 drones, 450 of which were heading toward Moscow.
Meanwhile, in Russia’s Lipetsk region, a Ukrainian drone attack also injured one civilian and damaged several residential buildings.
Lipetsk Region Governor Igor Artamonov said that during the drone attack, individual houses and multi-story residential buildings in various parts of the city were affected.
According to the governor, a man born in 2001 was injured in the attack; he has been taken to hospital and is being provided medical assistance.
Igor Artamonov said in his statement on the messaging app Max that drone debris also damaged a polyclinic building.
He clarified that the polyclinic was closed at the time of the attack and no one was inside the building.
According to information provided by the relevant regional authorities about these incidents in Moscow and Lipetsk, a total of three people were reported injured, while residential buildings and a medical center in Lipetsk were damaged.
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