Two drones were shot down upon approaching Moscow overnight, Russian officials said, while the death toll from a strike on Pokrovsk, Ukraine, rose to nine.
In his nightly address on Tuesday, Zelenskyy said that the death toll from Russia's Monday strikes on Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk had risen to nine, with another 82 people injured. A missile reportedly destroyed a popular hotel near the front line.
In a Google-translated statement on the Telegram messaging app, the ministry accused Ukraine of an attempted terror attack and said the drones were shot down by Moscow's air defense systems. CNBC has not independently verified the report.In Google-translated comments on Telegram, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said one drone was shot down near Domodedovo — home to a major airport — and the other near the Minsk highway, which runs to the Belarus border.
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