7:10 a.m.: Drone shot down near Moscow, attack repelled on Belgorod
Russian anti-aircraft defense shot down a drone south of Moscow during the night, said the mayor of the capital, while the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, countered a new air attack, according to its governor.
“In the city of Podolsk, the attack of a drone flying towards Moscow was repelled by anti-aircraft defense. According to preliminary data, there was no damage or casualties at the sites where the debris fell,” said Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
In a separate statement, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have shot down a Ukrainian drone in the Moscow region and to have “intercepted” another in the Leningrad region (northwest), rarely affected by this type of attacks.