Ukraine unleashed more than 140 drones on Russia overnight, officials said Tuesday, killing a woman near Moscow, grounding flights and setting off air defences in several parts of the country.
Russia’s ministry of defence said in a statement it had shot down 144 Ukrainian drones overnight – ’72 UAVs over Bryansk region, 20 over Moscow region, 14 over Kursk region, 13 over Tula region’, and 25 more over five other parts of the country.
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Moscow regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said in a Telegram post that a 46-year-old woman had been killed and several people wounded when a UAV damaged at least two high-rise apartment building in the Ramenskoye district of Moscow region, some 30 miles southeast of the Kremlin.
Videos of the attack show flames bursting out of windows of a multi-storey residential building, with dozens of flats severely damaged.
‘I looked at the window and saw a ball of fire,’ Alexander Li, a resident of the district told Reuters. ‘The window got blown out by the shockwave.’
The attack marks one of the largest drone assaults against Russia since the beginning of the war.
