Moscow was attacked by a large-scale drone, and the Russian army carried out intensive strikes on targets in Ukraine

China News Service, Moscow, October 22. Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow, the capital of Russia, said on the 22nd that the Moscow area was attacked by large-scale drones. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian military carried out large-scale and intensive attacks on targets in Ukraine.

Sobyanin posted on social media that a total of 630 drones attacked the Moscow area from 20:30 on the 21st to 4:00 on the 22nd. Most of the drones were destroyed by the Russian air defense system at long distances, and another 163 drones were intercepted as they approached Moscow. The attack injured two people in Voronovo district and they are currently receiving necessary medical treatment. The emergency rescue team is working at the scene of the crash of the drone wreckage.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on social media that from 20:00 on the 21st to 8:00 on the 22nd, Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 808 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones in the skies over 17 Russian states, the Crimea region and the Black Sea waters.

The Russian Ministry of Defense also stated that the Russian military used land-based high-precision weapons and drones to carry out large-scale attacks on targets in Ukraine in the early morning of the same day. It hit several Ukrainian military industrial enterprise facilities in Kiev used to produce and store cruise missiles and medium- and long-range drones, a road and railway bridge used to transport military supplies, and hit the port infrastructure at the Kilya Port in Odessa for unloading and storing military supplies arriving in Ukraine from abroad, as well as a dry cargo ship sailing to the port of Chernomorsk to transport military supplies.