Woman killed in Moscow region as Russia says it downed almost 150 drones overnight

The authorities in Russia’s Moscow region said that a Ukrainian drone strike in the early hours of Tuesday morning had left one person dead, while Russia’s Defence Ministry reported that it had intercepted almost 150 Ukrainian drones overnight.

A 46-year-old woman was killed in a drone strike on an apartment block in the city of Ramenskoye around 46km southeast of Moscow, the region’s governor Andrey Vorobyov said, adding that three more people had been hospitalised and 43 people had been placed in temporary accommodation.

Residents of a further five buildings surrounding another apartment block that was struck overnight were evacuated as emergency services cleared fallen drone debris, Vorobyov said, adding that regional authorities would assist with repair work and compensate people whose apartments were damaged.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had shot down a total of 144 Ukrainian drones overnight, 20 of which were intercepted over the Moscow region. A further 72 were downed over the southwestern Bryansk region, 14 over the partially Ukrainian-controlled Kursk region, and others over the Tula, Belgorod, Kaluga, Voronezh, Lipetsk and Oryol regions, the ministry said.

Flights were also cancelled for several hours at Moscow’s Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports before restrictions were lifted at around 8am local time, Russian state media reported.

While Kyiv did not comment on the attack, the Ukrainian Air Force said it had shot down 38 of 48 Shahed attack drones launched by Russia at the country overnight, with three more likely downed by Ukraine’s electronic warfare systems and a further three leaving Ukraine-controlled airspace in the direction of Russia and the occupied Luhansk region.