(Reuters) -Russian air defences destroyed or intercepted 112 Ukrainian drones over a three-hour period, most of them over central or southern regions, the Russian Defence Ministry said early on Wednesday.
A ministry statement on the Telegram messaging app said the incidents occurred between 9 p.m. and midnight Moscow time. Fifty-nine drones were downed over the Bryansk region on the Ukrainian border, the others were intercepted over five different regions.
The ministry announcement made no mention of drones being downed in the region surrounding Moscow.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, in three separate notices posted in rapid succession on Telegram, said eight Ukrainian drones were repelled while heading for the Russian capital.
Recovery crews were examining fragments on the ground, he said.
Russia and Ukraine fired large numbers of missiles at each other over the past week.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that more than 900 had been fired at Ukrainian targets over a three-day period ending early on Monday. The numbers tapered off on Monday night to Tuesday morning.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Chris Reese and Bill Berkrot)
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