Ukraine on Tuesday launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation. The attack caused the temporary closure of six airports in the region. Three people died, 17 were injured, including three children, IPN reports citing Reuters.
A total of 343 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia, including 91 over the Moscow region and 126 over the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces have retreated, as well as near the Kursk nuclear power plant, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The fall of the drone debris damaged the railroad infrastructure of the Domodedovo district railway station, and railroad traffic through Domodedovo station was subsequently suspended.
“The most massive attack by enemy UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) on Moscow has been repulsed,” Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobeanin wrote in a Telegram message.
Oil transportation through the Drujba pipeline was also affected, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjjártó said in a video posted on Facebook. “Due to the drone attack, the transportation of crude oil had to be suspended on the “Drujba” oil pipeline to Hungary,” the official said.
Hungary imports most of its oil through the Drujba pipeline, which transports Russian crude through Belarus and Ukraine to Hungary and Slovakia.
Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the State Duma’s defense committee and a former deputy defense minister, suggested that Moscow retaliated for Tuesday’s raid by hitting Ukraine with the “Oreshnik” hypersonic ballistic missile.
The Ukrainian military has tried for the past two years to respond to the aggressor with repeated drone raids.
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