Russian air defense systems intercepted 635 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Defense Ministry said Sunday.
“During the past night, air defense duty assets intercepted and destroyed 635 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles,” the ministry wrote on Telegram, listing more than a dozen regions where the drones were encountered.
Meanwhile, a blast at a Moscow restaurant Saturday that killed three people and wounded 21 more was a bombing, Russia’s national anti-terrorism committee said, Russian state news agency reported.
“A homemade explosive device blew up at a restaurant in Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, killing three people,” said the committee, quoted by TASS, adding that a woman carrying it into the restaurant had been stopped by a security agent.
The three people killed were a woman carrying the device into the restaurant, a security agent who stopped her and a customer, the committee added.
An earlier statement by Moscow police to the Ria Novosti news agency said investigators and police forensic specialists were at the site.
Images posted on Russian Telegram channels showed fire engines and ambulances outside the building. Moscow has been the target of several terrorist attacks in the past.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, Ukraine secret service has claimed or been accused of several assassinations or attempted assassinations of Russian military officers and public figures backing the conflict.
Russia blamed Ukraine for the killing of a senior general, Yaroslav Moskalik, in a car bomb in April 2025.
In August 2022 the nationalist Darya Dugina, daughter of hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, was killed outside Moscow when a bomb attached to her car detonated. Many believe her father was the intended target.
In April 2023, pro-Kremlin military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky — real name Maxim Fomin — was killed when a statuette he was handed exploded at a cafe in Saint Petersburg. (AFP)
