NIGHTTIME BLITZ
Moment Ukraine unleashes biggest ever drone strike on Moscow killing 1 & sparking apartment blaze as airports shut
Watch the shocking clip above as drones swarmed in the skies around the Russian capital
DRAMATIC footage shows the moment Ukraine launched over 140 drones into Russia hitting Moscow in its biggest ever UAV attack on the capital.
The massive barrage struck key airports in the capital and sparked fires in a residential area just 30 miles south of the Kremlin, killing one woman.
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Kyiv's kamikaze drones struck the Ramenskoye district just outside of the city, with dramatic pictures showing wrecked apartment blocks.
Scene footage showed two high-rise buildings in the area that were hit with flats inside set on fire.
It was unclear how many drones reached Moscow itself but some 15 were downed around the capital.
At least one of them hit the runway at Zhukovsky Airport, sparking a fire as flights were diverted.
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Three of Moscow’s four airports were disrupted for almost seven hours as UAVs swarmed in the skies.
A woman, 46, was killed and three people wounded when an unmanned aircraft hit an apartment building in Ramenskoye.
Emergency workers were later seen carrying her body out of the blitzed residential tower.
Dozens of homes were destroyed in what is believed to be the biggest drone attack on Vladimir Putin's capital to date.
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Ukraine also hit other Russian regions in the widespread attack, including Bryansk, Lipetsk, Tula, Kaluga and Kursk.
A large area of the Kusrk region is now under Ukrainian control after President Zelensky's forces launched a daring ambush across the border on August 6.
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Russia's defence ministry claimed to have destroyed 144 Ukrainian drones across nine different areas.
Twenty were intercepted over Moscow, which is home to over 21million people.
The Monday night attack is one of Ukraine's largest drone assaults on the country since Putin sparked war in February 2022.
Russia has consistently launched deadly strikes against Ukrainian capital Kyiv - killing both soldiers and civilians.
A local resident from Ramenskoye told Shot media: “I saw a fireball [and] managed to cover my wife…
“It was just a second.
“A bang and the window was blown out. We were all scared and ran in panic.”
Dozens of people were evacuated from the drone-hit building when an explosion sparked a blaze on the 11th and 12th floors.
Three of Moscow’s four major airports - Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky - were shut down temporarily during the overnight onslaught.
A total of 48 international and domestic flights were diverted to other airports, according to Russia’s civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia.
The major Kashirskoye Highway close to Domodedovo airport was hit by falling drone debris.
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Russian air defences were on high alert and some of the damage was caused by debris from downed UAVs, local authorities said.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin claimed that over a dozen drones heading for the capital were shot down by defences as they swarmed near the city.
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