Apartment blocks and private homes were hit by Kiev’s UAVs, Andrey Vorobyev has said
Three people were killed in a Ukrainian drone raid on Moscow Region overnight, local governor Andrey Vorobyev has said.
Air defenses in the area have been repelling a “major” UAV attack since 3:00 AM local time, Vorobyev wrote in a post on Telegram on Sunday morning.
Two men lost their lives when the debris of a downed drone fell on a home construction site in the village of Pogorelki near the city of Mytishchi, north-east of Moscow, he said.
In the city of Khimki, north-west of the capital, a UAV struck an apartment block, killing a female resident, according to the governor. Another person remains trapped under the rubble, with rescuers working on site, he added.
Four people were wounded when an apartment block and six private homes were hit in the city of Istra, Vorobyev said.
Residential areas and infrastructure facilities have also been targeted in other parts of the region, he added.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote on Telegram that 12 people in the capital were wounded as a result of the drone raid. A total of 120 UAVs targeting Moscow have been intercepted over the past 24 hours, he added.
Ukrainian drone incursions into Russia have intensified since mid-March, with Kiev deploying hundreds of fixed-wing UAVs on almost a daily basis, targeting critical infrastructure, manufacturing facilities and residential areas.
Officials in Moscow have described the raids as “terrorist attacks” meant to compensate for the setbacks the Ukrainian military has been suffering on the battlefield.
Russia has retaliated with a long-range strike campaign of its own, targeting dual-use infrastructure, including power grid facilities and military sites in Ukraine with missiles and drones. Moscow maintains that it never targets purely civilian sites.
