Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said more than 430 drones targeted the Moscow region overnight July 6-7, describing it as one of the largest reported drone attacks on the Russian capital since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Beginning at around 2:40 a.m. local time, Sobyanin published a series of Telegram updates reporting that Russian air defenses had intercepted waves of drones approaching the capital. By morning, he said more than 430 drones had flown toward the Moscow region between the evening and 6 a.m.
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“Most of them were neutralized by air defense forces on distant approaches,” Sobyanin said, adding that 36 drones were shot down while approaching Moscow. In several updates, he also reported falling debris after interceptions but did not provide details on casualties or damage.
Overnight, the air defense system shot down 452 Ukrainian drones over all Russian regions, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Of those, 430 were heading toward Moscow, said Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. According to him, most of the drones were “neutralized well before reaching the city.”
According to the state news agency TASS, this attack on the capital was the largest in the past two years.
The reported attack prompted temporary airspace restrictions at Sheremetyevo Airport, where flights were allowed to operate only after coordination with aviation authorities because of security measures in the Moscow aviation zone.
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Ukrainian long-range drone strikes have increasingly reached Moscow in recent months, repeatedly disrupting air traffic and targeting strategic infrastructure.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said that increasing drone attacks on Moscow could accelerate the end of the war. He argued that if attacks on the Russian capital continue to grow in scale, President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle would eventually be forced to confront the war’s consequences more directly.
According to Zelensky, once the Kremlin leader sees such attacks on the Russian capital with his own eyes, Putin’s advisers will likely begin urging him to move “somewhere beyond the Urals.”
“The farther Putin is from Moscow, the closer the end of the war will be,” the president added.
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