MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. An attempted drone attack was thwarted early on Friday as the UAV was shot down by units of the Russian Defense Ministry, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.

"This night, an enemy drone attempted to carry out an attack and was shot down by forces of the Defense Ministry," the official wrote on his Telegram channel. "No damage or casualties have been reported."

On July 24, Sobyanin reported that two drones attacked non-residential buildings in Moscow. One was shot down near Komsomolsky Avenue, 17; the other crashed into a building on Likhachev Avenue.