Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said early on Friday that air defense units had intercepted three separate attacks by Ukrainian drones headed for Russia\u2019s capital.
\nSobyanin, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said air defense units southeast of the capital in the Kolomna and Ramenskoye district had repelled one group of \u201cenemy\u201d drones, without specifying how many were involved.
\n\u201cAt the site where fragments fell, no damage or casualties have occurred,\u201d Sobyanin wrote on the Telegram messaging app, without specifying how many drones were involved. \u201cSpecialist emergency crews are at the site.\u201d
\nThe mayor posted two more announcements in quick succession.
\nSobyanin said two drones also headed for Moscow had been downed by air defenses in Podolsk district, south of the capital. He then reported a single drone downed in Troitsky district, in the southwest of the capital.
\nSpecialist emergency crews were dispatched to all the sites, Sobyanin said.
\nRussian news agencies quoted Rosaviatsiya, the federal aviation agency, as saying two Moscow airports, Vnukovo and Domodedovo, had suspended all flights.
\nRussia\u2019s Defense Ministry had earlier said that it had destroyed 49 Ukrainian drones over a three-hour period late on Thursday, most of them over the Kursk region near the Ukrainian border.
\nThe ministry, in a report on Telegram, said 37 drones had been destroyed solely in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces hold chunks of land after a mass incursion last August.
\nIt said the drones had been destroyed between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Moscow time (1600-1900 GMT).
\nUnofficial Russian Telegram channels had reported a \u201clarge number\u201d of drones over Kursk region and posted videos of explosions.
\nThe ministry statement said drones had also been destroyed over the border regions of Bryansk and Belgorod and the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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