Russia downed 605 Ukrainian drones overnight: Defence Ministry
Russia's Defence Ministry reported intercepting 605 Ukrainian drones overnight, marking a significant escalation in long-range aerial warfare. The attacks caused minor damage to a logistics center and sparked fires in residential areas.
Why it matters
The scale of the drone attack indicates an intensification of the conflict, with both sides increasingly targeting critical infrastructure deep within enemy territory.
Russia shot down 605 Ukrainian drones during the night over its territory and the annexed Crimean Peninsula, the defence ministry said Thursday.
"During the night... air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 605 Ukrainian aerial drones," the ministry said in a statement.
The Ministry flagged attacks in the Tver region about 180 kilometres (110 miles) northwest of Moscow, where local authorities reported a logistics centre belonging to the e-commerce giant Wildberries had been damaged.
Regional Governor Vitaly Korolyov said air defence systems had repelled the Ukrainian attack.
"As a result of the fall of debris from one of the drones, the facade of the Wildberries logistics centre was slightly damaged," he wrote on Telegram, adding that no one had been wounded.
Ukraine has repeatedly struck sites belonging to Wildberries — a popular online commerce platform often described as Russia's Amazon — across the country since mid-July.
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