Overview

• Russia’s defence ministry reported intercepting 112 Ukrainian drones across six regions in a three-hour operation before midnight on Tuesday.
• The Federal Aviation Transport Agency ordered temporary flight suspensions at Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports following the drone wave.
• Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 12 drones were shot down while heading toward the capital.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described launches of more than 900 drones against Russian cities over a recent three-day period.
• Observers say the rare scale of the attack on Moscow underscores a new phase in the conflict’s drone warfare, targeting urban infrastructure far from the front line.