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Ukraine launches ‘one of largest’ drone attacks on Moscow

Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly
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Moscow | Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones shot down by air defences in what Russian officials said was one of the biggest strikes of its type on the capital since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022.

The war, largely a grinding artillery and drone battle across the fields, forests and villages of eastern Ukraine, escalated on August 6 when Ukraine sent thousands of soldiers into Russia’s western Kursk region.

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