Tell me - Flight operations around Moscow were suspended on Thursday due to Ukrainian drone attacks, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, which announced the interception of a total of about one hundred drones, including 35 approaching the capital.
The Ministry of Defense stated in a release that "air defenses intercepted and destroyed 105 Ukrainian drones" in total.
Meanwhile, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on the Telegram platform that "rescue teams are working at the sites where debris fell."
In the evening, the mayor noted that 11 new drones were intercepted as they approached the city.
For its part, the Ukrainian Air Force indicated that Russia launched "128 attack drones" overnight, more than 112 of which were intercepted.
The Ukrainian military regularly launches drones loaded with explosives towards Russian territory in response to Russian strikes that target its land daily for more than three years, but Moscow is rarely bombed.
Flights at several airports in the Russian capital were suspended on Thursday, according to the Russian civil aviation agency, including the main international airport Sheremetyevo, as well as airports Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Zhukovsky.
So far, Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses calls from Kyiv, Washington, and Europeans for a sustained ceasefire.
Russia currently controls about 20 percent of Ukraine's territory, including the Crimea Peninsula, which it annexed in 2014.
The death toll is estimated at tens of thousands, and the fighting has forced millions of Ukrainians to flee cities and villages in the east and south of the country.
