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Drones hit several buildings in Moscow, causing “minor” damage and no serious injuries, with air defence systems also destroying several drones on their approach to the Russian capital, Russian officials said early on Tuesday,

“All emergency services of the city are at the scene of the incident,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his Telegram messaging channel.

Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, said on the Telegram channel that several drones were shot down on their approach to Moscow.

It was not immediately clear who launched the drones. Several of Russia’s Telegram messaging channels reported that four to 10 drones were shot on the outskirts of Moscow and in its immediate region.

Sobyanin said that some residents were being evacuated.

Russia’s RIA state news agency reported that some residents of a building on Moscow’s Profsoyuznaya Street in the city’s south were being evacuated.

Earlier on Sunday, Russia unleashed waves of air strikes on Kyiv overnight in what officials said was the largest drone attack of the city but crowds poured into the streets to celebrate the anniversary of the Ukrainian capital’s founding.

The Ukrainian military said it had downed 58 of the 59 launched drones, described by the air force as a record assault with Iranian-made “kamikaze” drones. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said all 36 drones targeting Kyiv had been destroyed.

“This is how Russia celebrates the day of our ancient Kyiv,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly address.

In what also appears to be the first deadly attack on Kyiv in May and the 14th assault this month, falling debris killed a 41-year-old man, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, while several other people were injured.

Source: Reuters