Russian air defense system shot down 144 Ukrainian uavs in multiple locations between the evening of September 9 and early morning of October 10, including 20 over Moscow Oblast, the Russian defense ministry said Monday, fourteen, 72 and eight were shot down over the Kursk Oblast, Bryansk Oblast and Belgorod Oblast bordering Ukraine, while 30 were shot down over other states.
Reuters said on the 10th that it was the“Largest scale of UAV attacks” on Moscow so far, and the second large-scale drone attacks on Russia since early September. Moscow had three airports temporarily closed for more than six hours, and about 50 flights were delayed or diverted to other airports. One of the attacked Ramenskoye District in Moscow state is located about 50 km southeast of the Kremlin. Reported that Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack on Russia in early September, mainly aimed at Russian energy and electricity and other infrastructure.
An apartment building is hit by a drone on September 10,2010 in Ramenskoye, Russia, 2024 local time.
Russian president Peskov said on the same day that UAV attacks on Russian residential areas could not be considered “Military operations” in view of the attacks in Moscow Oblast and other places, RIA Novosti reported Monday. “We should continue to carry out special military operations so as to protect the country from such attacks by the Kiev regime,” he said. He said that the Russian military has accumulated a wealth of experience in the fight against drones, and achieved good results.
“Ukraine has carried out a large-scale drone strike against Russia,” the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency quoted Ukrainian military expert Sergei znev as saying yesterday. The more Russia loses resources under attack, the better for us. “This new drone strike on Russian territory has set an absolute new record,” the Ukrainian Air Force said Monday, in the early hours of the same day, the Russian military launched missile and UAV attacks on Ukraine, a total of two missiles and 46 uavs fired. Ukrainian forces intercepted and shot down 38 uavs.