More Than 400 Drones Head Toward Moscow Region Overnight: Mayor

Air Defenses Intercept Most of Them on Distant Routes

Moscow, October 13. /TASS/. More than 400 drones flew toward the Moscow region between 8:30 p.m. Moscow time on October 12 and 7 a.m. on October 13 (5:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. GMT), Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with air defenses neutralizing most of them at close range.

He wrote on his Max channel: "Between 8:30 pm on October 12 and 7 am on October 13, 417 drones flew towards the Moscow region. Air defense neutralized most of them at close range."

Sobyanin added that the air defense destroyed 65 drones approaching Moscow during this period.