More than 370 drones launched at Moscow region overnight, most 'neutralised': Mayor

MOSCOW, July 18: More than 370 drones were launched toward the Moscow region overnight, the Russian capital's mayor said on Saturday, adding that most of them had been shot down.

"Since 8:30 pm (1730 GMT), more than 370 drones were flying in the direction of the Moscow region. Most were neutralised by air defence forces at distant approaches. 64 enemy UAVs were destroyed on approach to Moscow," Sergei Sobyanin wrote on the state-backed MAX platform.

A Ukrainian drone attack on two logistics centres in Russia killed eight people and injured 24, officials said on Saturday, when the Moscow region reported a new wave of drone strikes.

Ukraine has been attacking a range of targets in Russia, which Kyiv says is fair retribution for Moscow's more than four years of strikes against its territory.

"Seven night-shift employees were killed when enemy UAVs hit a Wildberries logistics centre," said the governor of Tambov region, EvgenyPervyshov.

"According to preliminary information, 24 people were injured" in the attack in the town of Kotovsk, he added.

Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries said its logistics complexes in Kotovsk and Elektrostal, in the Tambov and Moscow regions respectively, came under attack. �"AFP