Ukraine launches 620 drones at Moscow region in major attack, mayor says

Aug 18 (Reuters) - Ukraine ‌launched 620 ​drones ​at Moscow and surrounding areas into the early hours of Tuesday morning, the capital's mayor ‌said, in one of Kyiv's biggest air ⁠assaults on the region, while Russian-annexed Crimea said it suffered power ‌outages after strikes.

Russian forces ‌downed 180 of the drones over the Moscow region and emergency services were working at crash ​sites, mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram, without going into detail on any casualties or damage.

Drones ⁠hit a warehouse of Russian e-commerce company Wildberries and other facilities near ​Moscow, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said separately. At least three people, including a 10-year-old girl, ​were injured in the region, ‌he added.

Wildberries, a frequent target of Kyiv's attacks following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine ⁠in 2022, said drone debris hit a wall at the warehouse, causing minor damage.

Several other Russian-controlled regions, including ⁠Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, also reported heavy attacks from ​Ukraine.

Krymenergo, the Crimean peninsula's largest power supplier, said southern districts came under Ukrainian drone attacks overnight.

It said several settlements have ‌been cut off from power supplies as a result of the attacks, and that ‌the situation with power deliveries has remained challenging ⁠in north-western, eastern and ‌southern parts of ​the region.

(Reporting by Jekaterīna Golubkova in Tokyo; Editing by Christian Schmollinger, Stephen Coates and Andrew ‌Heavens)

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