Moscow was attacked by drones on Tuesday morning, according to the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin. Writing on Telegram, he said that several buildings sustained “minor damage,” and two people sought medical attention. Andrey Vorobyov, the governor of the Moscow region, reported that multiple drones were shot down while approaching the capital. He said that residents in several of the region’s districts may have heard the sounds of explosions as air defenses were activated. The Telegram channel Baza reported that 25 drones were involved in the attack. Most of them, the channel said, were downed by air defenses in the Moscow suburbs, while some got stuck in trees and utility lines. Three drones reportedly hit residential buildings, and the explosive device on one of them failed to detonate. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the city was attacked by eight aircraft-type drones, five were shot down by air defense systems, and “three of them were put down by electronic warfare means.”
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