MOSCOW, October 22. /TASS/. More than 600 drones were flying toward Moscow overnight to Thursday, with the majority of them being neutralized far away from the city, Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.

"From 8:30 p.m. Moscow time on October 21 to 4:00 a.m. on October 22 (5:30 p.m. GMT to 1:00 a.m. GMT), as many as 630 unmanned aerial vehicles were flying toward Moscow. Most of them were destroyed by air defense forces far from the city," he wrote on messaging app Max.

According to Sobyanin, 163 drones were shot down near Moscow.