According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the country’s air defense allegedly destroyed 1,671 Ukrainian drones, ten guided aerial bombs, and two HIMARS rockets.
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In response to recent events, Russian propaganda media outlets have continuously updated data on Ukraine’s “absolute records.”
“In the past 24 hours, air defense forces over Russia shot down 1,671 drones – an absolute record,” RIA Novosti reported in the afternoon.
Essentially, Russian media recorded that this was the largest Ukrainian drone attack on Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion.
However, neither the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense nor the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have yet confirmed or denied this information.
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Earlier on Tuesday, Russian authorities reported a large-scale drone attack on Moscow and the Moscow region.
The mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin, stated that from Monday evening until 5 a.m. Tuesday, 637 drones flew towards the Moscow region, of which 180 drones were reportedly destroyed.
It turned out that during the night shelling, the warehouse of the online retail giant Wildberries in the Moscow region was hit and caught fire. This fact was confirmed by the governor of the Moscow region, Andrey Vorobyov. He described the night attack as “large-scale” and indicated that 150 drones were shot down in the region.
After the strikes, the company Rosaviatsiya imposed temporary restrictions on aircraft arrivals and departures from Moscow’s Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Zhukovsky, and Sheremetyevo airports.
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