Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (AFP pic)MOSCOW: Russia's military said Wednesday that it had shot down 902 Ukrainian drones overnight, 180 of them near the capital Moscow.
"Over the past night... air defence systems destroyed 902 Ukrainian drones" across around 20 Russian regions and annexed Crimea, the defence ministry said in a statement.
According to the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin, "180 drones were destroyed as they approached Moscow".
He posted on Telegram that it was among the biggest drone attacks to have targeted Moscow in recent weeks.
