Russia on Tuesday said it shot down 419 Ukrainian drones over the country overnight, including in the Moscow region, where authorities said a six-month-old baby was killed.
Kiev has stepped up its long-range drone strike campaign against Russia in recent months, as Moscow’s full-scale offensive against Ukraine drags on for almost 4.5 years.
Kiev has particularly targeted Russian energy infrastructure to hit a vital source of the Kremlin’s revenue to fund its war effort.
Air defence systems “intercepted and destroyed 419 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles” around the country, the defence ministry posted on the state-run Max platform.
The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, later said that drones had struck the village of Yevgoryevsk, south-west of Moscow, hitting a “private house.”
“Unfortunately, a six-month old baby died on the way to hospital,” he said on Telegram.
