More than 260 flights have been delayed or canceled at Moscow's airports due to Ukraine's massive drone attack on the Russian capital, APA's Russia bureau reports.
Airlines have urged passengers not to come to airports and to return or change their tickets.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced that 194 Ukrainian UAVs had been shot down over the past 24 hours.
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Ukraine on Thursday launched its largest drone attack on Moscow in years, sparking fires in and around the capital and forcing evacuations at the country's largest airport, officials said, The Moscow Times reports.
Unverified videos on social media purported to show large columns of black smoke over the city's skyline, while another showed drones buzzing overhead.
The large-scale attack came hours before President Vladimir Putin was set to meet Southeast Asian leaders at a summit in the city of Kazan, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) east of the capital.
Kyiv has stepped up its drone strikes on Russia in recent months, hitting oil refineries that fund Moscow's war chest as diplomatic talks on ending the more than four-year conflict remain stalled.
"Air defense forces are continuing to repel a large-scale attack. Several drones managed to reach the MNPZ [Moscow Oil Refinery]," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram, with authorities closing traffic on streets near the refinery.
He did not specify damage to the facility, but several Russian media outlets reported that it was on fire.
Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, the busiest airport in the country, announced it had evacuated passengers to "safe locations" during the barrage and was restricting flights.
Another drone crashed into an apartment building in the Moscow region district of Zhukovsky, while drone debris sparked a fire at a shopping centre near the capital's suburbs, Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said.
Russian air defenses shot down 180 drones on approach to Moscow, Sobyanin said, while the Defense Ministry reported it had intercepted more than 500 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The attack was the largest on Moscow in at least two years, Russia's state TASS news agency reported.
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