Air defense shot down 170 drones over the Kaluga region overnight

Overnight attack on the Kaluga region

On the evening of October 28 and during the night of October 29, air defense duty forces destroyed 170 unmanned aerial vehicles in the sky over the Kaluga region. This was announced by the region's governor Vladislav Shapsha in the Max messenger. Operational teams are working at the sites where debris fell. According to the governor's preliminary information, there are no casualties and no damage to infrastructure.

Attack on Moscow the same night

The attack on the Kaluga region was part of a larger assault: on the night of October 29, according to Gazeta.Ru, more than 600 Ukrainian drones were flying toward Moscow and the Moscow region. The capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated that 231 UAVs were shot down directly on approach to the city, while most of the aerial targets, according to him, were neutralized at distant approaches.

Strike on a train in the Bryansk region

The day before, on October 28, a Ukrainian drone attacked a passenger railway train at the Klintsy station in the Bryansk region, as the region's governor Yegor Kovalchuk reported. The train was traveling from Unecha to Novozybkov; the driver's cab of the railcar was damaged. The locomotive crew and passengers were evacuated, and no one was injured.

Previous attacks on the region

The night attack of October 28–29 was preceded by an earlier attack on the Kaluga region, in which, according to previously published reports, five houses and a power line were damaged. Thus, the region has been subjected to at least two attacks in a week, although in the most recent case, according to preliminary data from the authorities, there was no damage to infrastructure.