Ukraine launched its largest drone attack on the Russian capital on Tuesday, with at least 91 drones targeting Moscow killing at least one person, causing fires, closing airports and forcing dozens of flights to be diverted, Russian officials said.
The Ministry of Defense said that Russia had 337 Ukrainian drones knocked down, including 91 in the Moscow region and 126 in the Kursk region where Ukrainian troops have been retreating.
The massive dawn drone attack took place, like a Ukrainian team prepared to meet in Saudi Arabia to seek reasons for possible peace talks in the three-year-old war, while Russian forces attempted to surround thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in western Kursk.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defense personnel are still attacking the city, with the surrounding area having a population of at least 21 million and one of the largest metropolitan areas in Europe.
“The biggest attack on Moscow's drones (autonomous cars) has been repelled,” Subyanin said in an article on the telegram.
Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said at least two people were killed and three were injured, and he posted a picture of the damaged apartment and the windows were blown out.
Vorobyov said some residents were forced to evacuate a multi-storey building in the Ramenskoye area of ​​Moscow, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southeast of the Kremlin.
There is no sign of panic in Moscow, and commuters are working properly in central Moscow.
Russia's aviation regulator said flights at all four airports in Moscow were suspended to ensure air safety after the attack. Two other airports in the Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod areas east of Moscow were also closed.
Although U.S. President Donald Trump said he wanted to achieve peace in Ukraine, the war was heating up on the battlefield, with Kursk's major Russian spring offensive and a series of Ukrainian drones attacking Russia.
Russia has developed countless electronic “umbrellas” in Moscow and on key installations, with additional high-level interior layers on strategic buildings and shot down a complex network of drones before they arrived at the Kremlin in the heart of the capital.
Kiev itself was the target of the Russian Army's repeated strikes, and he tried to counter its larger eastern neighbors, repeatedly opposing oil refineries, airports and even radar stations for strategic early training in Russia.
Ukraine has kept many secrets of wartime drone programs. CBC's foreign journalist Briar Stewart talked to Ukrainian soldiers and drone designers about developing more high-tech attack drones. The prospect of possible peace negotiations prompted both sides to try to improve their battlefield positions so that they could be in a stronger negotiating position.
The war was the largest in Europe since World War II, combining the loss-making war trench and artillery warfare of World War I with major innovations in drones.
Both Moscow and Kiev are trying to buy and develop new drones, deploy them in innovative ways, and seek new ways to destroy them – from using farmers' shotguns to advanced electronic assurance systems.
Both sides turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons while increasing their own production.
Soldiers on both sides reported an inherent fear of drones – both sides used the target video footage of a deadly drone strike in propaganda, where soldiers blow in the toilet or run from burning vehicles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who tried to isolate Moscow from the severe and severe war, called Ukrainian drone attacks on civilian infrastructure targeting nuclear power plants, such as nuclear power plants, “terrorism” and vowed to respond.
Moscow, by far the wealthiest city in Russia, flourished during the war, the largest defense spending since the Cold War.
