Two killed, nine injured in massive overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow Region

MOSCOW, October 6. /TASS/. Two people were killed and nine others were injured as a result of an overnight Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow Region, Governor Andrey Vorobyov reported on his Max channel.

One person was injured in a drone attack on a private house in Russia’s western Smolensk Region, Governor Vasily Anokhin said on his Max channel.

TASS has compiled the key details on the aftermath.

Scale

- From 8:00 p.m. Moscow time on October 5 to 9:00 a.m. Moscow time on October 6 (from 5:00 p.m. GMT on October 5 to 6:00 a.m. GMT on October 6), on-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 868 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over Russian regions, the Defense Ministry reported.

- According to its statement, the drones were downed over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, Tula and Moscow Regions, Crimea, and the Sea of Azov.

- According to TASS calculations based on Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin’s reports on his Max channel, air defenses shot down 161 drones approaching the capital since the start of the day.

- Sobyanin noted that between 8:30 p.m. Moscow time on October 5 and 5:00 a.m. Moscow time (between 5:30 p.m. GMT on October 5 and 2:00 a.m. GMT on October 6), 650 drones flew toward the Moscow Region.

- Air defenses destroyed most of them at long range.

- A total of 105 drones were destroyed as they approached Moscow.

- The attempted enemy attack on Moscow was one of the largest in the past two years.

- Air defensee and electronic warfare systems shot down 185 drones over the Moscow Region, Governor Andrey Vorobyov stated.

- Air defenses downed 46 Ukrainian drones over Russia’s central Kaluga Region, Governor Vladislav Shapsha said on his Max channel.

- Air defenses destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones over the Tula Region overnight, Governor Dmitry Milyaev reported on his Max channel.

- Nineteen Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Smolensk Region overnight, Governor Vasily Anokhin stressed.

Consequences in Moscow Region

- Two people were killed in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow Region, Vorobyov reported.

- He specified that one of the victims was a 20-year-old man in the village of Radumlya in the Solnechnogorsk district near Moscow.

- In Domodedovo’s Barybin, rescue workers found the body of a 71-year-old man under the rubble of a destroyed private home.

- In addition, according to the governor, a total of nine people were injured as a result of the attack.

- In Pokrovskoye, a man with shrapnel wounds was taken to the hospital.

- In Istra, two residents of Yadromino and Gorok were hospitalized.

- One of them is scheduled for surgery.

- In addition, three people in the village of Lyakhovo in the Domodedovo district required medical attention.

- According to Vorobyov, ten private houses were damaged in Istra, as well as outbuildings and two cars in Safontiyevo, Torlopovo, Gorki, and Yadromino.

- In the village of Pokrovskoye in the Volokolamsk district, the facade and windows of a house were damaged.

- In Domodedovo’s Lobanovo, a fire broke out in a private home.

- Another house was destroyed in Barybin.

- The governor added that emergency services are working in all affected areas.

- In the village of Litvinovo in the Solnechnogorsk district, a drone crashed onto the roof of a store’s warehouse, district head Konstantin Mikhalkov specified, noting that a fire broke out as a result.

- A cargo truck was also damaged.

- A total of 46 employees were quickly evacuated to a safe location.

- According to Mikhalkov, two private homes and a car were also damaged in the district, and nine other cars were burned.

- In turn, Vorobyov later reported that the fire on the warehouse premises has now been extinguished.

- In total, according to him, 47 private homes were damaged across seven districts of the Moscow Region.

- The governor added that four apartments in an apartment building in the village of Lobanovo in Domodedovo were damaged, with shattered windows and balcony glass.

- No one was injured, and no evacuation was necessary.

- Windows at a nearby boiler room were also damaged.

- In addition, three vehicles were damaged: two in Istra and one in Stupino.

Other regions

- One person was injured as a result of a drone attack on a private home in the Smolensk Region, Governor Vasily Anokhin reported.

- The individual declined hospitalization.

- A passenger bus was damaged in Gorlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic as a result of a drone strike, Mayor Ivan Prikhodko reported on his Max channel.

- According to the latest reports, seven civilians were injured.

- Two civilians were injured in a massive drone attack in Belaya Berezka in the Bryansk Region, Governor Yegor Kovalchuk stated on his Max channel.