More than three dozen drones heading towards Moscow were shot down by air defense forces late on March 16 and in the night of March 17, reports the capital's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin.
Air defense forces intercepted a total of 39 drones heading towards Moscow from 10:00 PM Moscow time on March 16 to 6:20 AM Moscow time on March 17. This information comes from the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, who announced it on Telegram in the early hours of Tuesday, March 17, reports DW.
The posts do not specify which objects could have been the targets of the drones or over which areas of the Moscow region they were shot down. The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, had not commented on the attacks by the time of publication.
In the morning of March 16, Sergei Sobyanin reported that over the previous two days, "air defense forces destroyed approximately 250 enemy drones directly approaching Moscow and at the second line towards Moscow." The Russian state agency TASS claims that the attack on Moscow from March 14 to 16 was the most massive in a year.
Drones Over Belgorod, Bryansk, and Leningrad Regions
In the night of March 17, the city of Korochа in the Belgorod region was affected by drones, reported the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov. As a result of a drone detonating near a social facility, five people were injured, he explained, without specifying which building was involved. According to the official, all five injured refused hospitalization.
In the Bryansk region, three people were injured as a result of a nighttime drone raid, wrote the region's governor, Alexander Bogomaz, on his Telegram channel. According to him, three residential buildings and a car were damaged.
Four drones were shot down over the southwest of the Leningrad region early on March 17, stated the region's governor, Alexander Drozdenko. He did not provide any information about the consequences of the destruction of the drones.
