Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the Russian capital had faced its largest drone attack to date, claiming that air defences had shot down 450 drones as they approached the city. The reported attack and its effects have not been independently verified in the source.
Sobyanin said Russian air defences had intercepted more than 1,600 drones at various locations since 19 September, including the 450 he said were headed towards Moscow. He alleged the attack was intended to disrupt elections in Russia, but provided no evidence for that assertion.
Refinery and logistics-site fire reports
The mayor acknowledged that several drones reached the grounds of the Moscow Oil Refinery in the Kapotnya district. A separate drone reportedly struck a residential building; Sobyanin said there had been no casualties.
Earlier reports described a large-scale drone attack over Moscow and Moscow Oblast, with fires reported at the Sofyino logistics technopark and the Kapotnya refinery. The refinery fire was reported after the drone attack, and the AVT-6 unit was said to have been hit. The source did not independently verify the reported damage or fires.
Defence Ministry’s nationwide claim
Russia’s Ministry of Defence separately claimed that it had intercepted or destroyed 1,110 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russian regions, occupied Crimea and the Black Sea. The ministry’s statement provided the basis for attributing the drones to Ukraine; the claim was not independently verified in the source.
