MOSCOW, August 22. /TASS/. The number of drones flying toward the Moscow Region since the morning of August 15 has exceeded 2,500, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin revealed on Saturday.

"Between 8:30 a.m. Moscow time (5:30 a.m. GMT) on August 15 and 8:30 a.m. Moscow time (5:30 a.m. GMT) on August 22, 2,652 drones flew toward the Moscow Region. Most of them were neutralized by air defenses on the distant outskirts," he said in a post on his Max channel.

As many as 493 drones were destroyed on the approach to Moscow, the mayor of the Russian capital added.