Three Ukraine drones downed en route to Moscow: Russia
Two Moscow airports - Vnukovo and Domodedovo - suspended arrivals and departures for safety reasons but later resumed operations, Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 27 Ukrainian drones in total from 3pm to 7pm Moscow time, including four over Moscow region, 15 over Bryansk region, six over Kaluga region and two over Tula region.
Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces had launched attacks involving more than 300 drones and about 30 missile and cruise missiles on Ukrainian cities overnight.
Zelenskiy posted photos on Telegram showing damage caused to a residential block in Odessa on the Black Sea, where one person was killed and six others injured, according to local officials.
Two people were killed in a Russian missile strike in the Synelnykove district, the military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Serhiy Lysak said.
A school and a cultural institution were destroyed; private buildings were also damaged and cars were burned out, he said.
The Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were also hit, according to Zelenskiy.
Important infrastructure was destroyed in Sumy, where thousands of households were now without electricity.
"There are still drones in the sky," Zelenskiy said.
He added that Ukraine's air defences were destroying them and that emergency services were in operation.
Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk had been badly hit, with a residential block and important infrastructure damaged, Zelenskiy said.
Regional military governor Serhiy Lysak spoke of a "hellish night" and said it was the worst attack to date on the city, which lies due east of Dnipro.
"One explosion after another. Russian terrorists attacked with missiles and drones," he posted on Telegram.
Ukrainian rail head Oleksandr Pertsovskyi posted on Facebook that there were increasing Russian attacks on civilian trains not transporting military goods.
Coal trains were being hit in particular, he said.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a full-scale Russian invasion for more than three years.
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