At least one individual has lost their life and air travel has been affected throughout Russia following Ukraine’s launch of large-scale drone assaults for the second consecutive day, according to Russian officials on Thursday morning.
In the western Bryansk region, authorities reported that a civilian was killed and another person injured due to a “targeted strike” on the village of Kamensky Khutor, located near the border with Ukraine’s Chernihiv region.
Meanwhile, in the Kursk region, a local official sustained injuries to their hip and arm from a drone strike, while the Tula region reported that two civilians suffered minor injuries from airstrikes that damaged the roof of an apartment building in the regional capital.
Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that Russian air defenses successfully intercepted over 40 drones aimed at the capital during the night and on Thursday morning, just a day after another wave of roughly three dozen drones targeted the city.
The Russian aviation agency Rosaviatsia indicated that all four airports in Moscow temporarily suspended flights. Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries or damage in the Moscow area itself.
The disruptions in air travel extended to regions as distant as Buryatia in Siberia, approximately 4,400 kilometers (2,700 miles) east of Moscow, where flights experienced delays of up to three hours.
Authorities reported that mobile internet services were limited in at least two of the regions impacted by the strikes, a scenario that had previously occurred during earlier drone attacks this week.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed to have shot down 105 Ukrainian drones across ten regions, including Moscow, during the previous night. The night before, they stated that 159 drones were intercepted over nine regions.
Additionally, Ukrainian drones inflicted damage on the Bolkhovsky Semiconductor Devices Plant in the Oryol region during nighttime attacks on Tuesday.