TREE NEWS update: Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Ukraine launched its largest attack on Russia to date, using more than 1,600 drones. He wrote on social media that 450 of the drones downed by Russian air defenses were heading toward the capital, and described the assault as “unprecedented.”
Moscow Mayor Says Ukraine Launched Largest-Ever Drone Attack
The scale Sobyanin describes is the story: a single-night drone assault reaching into the capital's airspace at volumes that air defenses are forced to publicly quantify. That matters less as a battlefield claim than as a signal about Russia's domestic air-defense burden and the resource cost of intercepting massed, low-cost systems — a math that applies to any state defending fixed infrastructure against drone swarms. The open question is whether this tempo is sustained or a one-off escalation.
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