MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. More than 400 drones headed toward the Moscow Region between 8:30 p.m. Moscow time on October 12 and 7 a.m. on October 13 (5:30 p.m. - 4 a.m. GMT), with air defenses neutralizing most of them on the distant approaches, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.

"Between 8:30 p.m. on October 12 and 7 a.m. on October 13, 417 UAVs headed toward the Moscow Region. Air defenses neutralized most of them on the distant approaches," he wrote on his Max channel.

Sobyanin added that air defenses destroyed 65 drones approaching Moscow during that period.