MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian air defences repelled an attack by four drones flying towards Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Friday, and initial information suggested nobody had been hurt.
“Emergency services are working at the site where debris came down,” Sobyanin said on his official channel on the Telegram messaging app.
He did not mention Ukraine, but Kyiv has launched a steady stream of drone attacks on Russia since President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine more than three years ago, most of of them targeting energy and other infrastructure.
Andrei Vorobyov, the governor of the wider Moscow region, said that three of the drones had been brought down over his region. Debris had fallen on a construction site and a residential building under construction, said Vorobyov, adding that there had been no casualties.
One of the drones had hit the roof of a multi-storey residential building in the west of Moscow, the RIA news agency reported, citing initital information from emergency services.
The TASS news agency reported that debris had fallen on a private house on the outskirts of Moscow.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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