MOSCOW, November 3. /TASS/. Almost 500 drones flew toward Moscow and the Moscow Region from Monday morning, with most of them destroyed by air defenses at distant approaches, the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin, said.

"From 8:30 p.m. [Moscow time] (5:30 p.m. GMT) on November 2 to 7:30 a.m. [Moscow time] (4:30 a.m. GMT) on November 3, a total of 493 UAVs flew toward the Moscow agglomeration. Most of them were destroyed by the Defense Ministry’s air defenses at distant approaches. As many as 187 drones were neutralized as they approached Moscow," he wrote on the Max channel.

The enemy drone attack was one of the largest in the past six months, according to calculations by TASS.