Dramatic footage has shown the devastating aftermath of one of Ukraine’s biggest drone attacks of the war so far.
Russian air defences were left scrambling to shoot down Ukraine’s 337 drones across 10 different regions with Moscow and Kursk the main targets, according to the officials in the capital.
The swarm of strikes on Putin’s capital came as President Volodymyr Zelensky’s negotiators are due to start talks with Donald Trump’s team in Saudi Arabia today.
At least three people have been killed and 18 others injured in the “massive” attack, Russian officials claim.
Drones were shot down over Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk and Voronezh on the border with Ukraine.
Other areas deeper inside Russia were also hit including Kaluga, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol and Ryazan.
Footage captured the moment a mushroom cloud blast erupts over a crowded city near to the capital.
A house can also be seen up in flames as burning debris crashes into the ground.
Elsewhere, devastating video showed how a busy car park was battered by drones.
Dozens of parked up motors had been left in a smoking wreckage with many continuing to be engulfed in flames up until the early hours of the morning.
Kremlin loyalist and Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin described the attack as “the most massive attack of enemy UAVs on Moscow”.
“Hundreds of combat drones have been shot down at various points.” he claimed.
Russian officials described it as a “mass attack” and said it was the first major strike on the capital since November.
Russian President Putin has also been informed of the attack, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says.
One drone blast exploded in Kurchatov, a town close to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.
Kursk was one of the main targets for the drones outside of Moscow after intense battlefield fighting in recent days.
Around 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers are facing complete encirclement having been left trapped and fighting blind in the region.
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