Air defenses intercept nearly 3,000 Ukrainian drones heading to Moscow over week — mayor

MOSCOW, October 17. /TASS/. Air defenses have shot down 2,730 Ukrainian drones heading to Moscow since last Saturday, with most of them neutralized at distant approaches to the Russian capital, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.

"From 8:30 a.m. [Moscow time] on October 10 to 8:30 a.m. [Moscow time] on October 17, 2,730 UAVs flew towards the Moscow agglomeration. The larger part of them was destroyed by air defense forces at distant approaches," the Moscow mayor wrote on his Max channel.

Over that period, 534 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed as they approached Moscow, the mayor said.