{"id":534339,"date":"2025-10-29T00:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/534339\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:34:15","slug":"ukraine-targets-moscow-with-drones-for-third-straight-night-russia-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/534339\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine targets Moscow with drones for third straight night, Russia says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reuters) -Ukraine sent drones towards Moscow for the third consecutive night, disrupting air traffic around the Russian capital, Russian authorities said late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Russian defence ministry said in a statement that its air defence units destroyed 57 Ukrainian drones within three hours, starting at 1700 GMT on Monday, including four over the Moscow region and eight over neighbouring regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kyiv has kept up long-range drone strikes on Moscow and other Russian regions in recent months, saying the aim is to hit military and industrial assets, sap Russia&#8217;s war economy and show Russians the conflict is no longer distant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsiya said two of Moscow&#8217;s four airports, the Domodedovo airport and the smaller Zhukovsky airport, were briefly closed for safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on the Telegram messaging app that emergency services had been sent to the site where a drone bound for Moscow came down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were no immediate reports of damage. Russia typically gives limited details about the effects of Ukrainian strikes on its territory unless civilians or civilian infrastructure are hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over the previous two nights, Russia&#8217;s units destroyed 35 Ukrainian drones over the Moscow region, the Russian defence ministry said. There was no damage reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in MelbourneEditing by Rod Nickel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -Ukraine sent drones towards Moscow for the third consecutive night, disrupting air traffic around the Russian capital,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2301,172784,172783,332,55328],"class_list":{"0":"post-534339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-moscow","9":"tag-moscow-mayor","10":"tag-moscow-region","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-russian-defence-ministry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115454650979946237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}