Kiev. A massive drone attack rocked Moscow and its suburbs early Sunday, injuring several people and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia’s busiest airports, authorities said.
Meanwhile, a huge nighttime wave of Russian drones attacked Ukraine. This came after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a pact with North Korea, obligating both countries to provide immediate military aid using “all means” if either is attacked. The agreement represents the strongest link between Moscow and Pyongyang since the end of the Cold War.
Earlier this week, Ukraine reported that its troops clashed with North Korean units for the first time. US officials previously confirmed the deployment of at least 3,000 North Korean troops in Russia, while kyiv says the number is much higher. This has fueled concerns of a significant escalation in the war and tensions boiling over in the region.
Both Moscow and kyiv have kept a tight lid on casualty figures since the start of the war despite regular reports that Russian forces suffered huge losses following “human wave” attacks aimed at depleting Ukrainian defenses. .
Meanwhile, UK Chief of the Defense Staff Tony Radakin said Russian forces had suffered their worst month of casualties in October since they invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Radakin told the BBC that Kremlin troops suffered an average of 1,500 dead and wounded “every day,” bringing their total casualties in the war to 700,000.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said a total of 84 drones were shot down overnight on Russian territory. The Russian aviation authority said flights were briefly suspended at major international airports, including Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo.
A woman in her early 50s suffered burns to her face, neck and hands after drones caused a fire in her village southeast of Moscow, local governor Andrei Vorobyov said.
No one was injured in the Russian capital, Sobyanin said, although Russian channels on the Telegram messaging app spread eyewitness reports of drone debris setting suburban homes on fire.
According to Radakin, ordinary Russians are paying “an extraordinary price” for the war, even as a grueling and protracted Russian offensive in Ukraine’s industrial east continues to make progress. He did not specify how UK officials calculated the Russian casualty figures.
“There is no doubt that Russia is making tactical and territorial advances, and that is putting pressure on Ukraine,” he noted.
Moscow and kyiv have kept a tight lid on casualty figures since the war began, despite regular reports of huge losses by Russian forces following “human wave” attacks aimed at exhausting Ukrainian defences.
Meanwhile, Russia launched a “record” 145 drones into Ukrainian territory overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force, of which 62 were shot down. Another 67 were “lost,” the air force said, in a likely reference to electronic interference that caused the drones to veer off course.
At least one person was injured when Russian drones attacked residential areas in the southern port of Odessa in Ukraine, local governor Oleh Kiper said.
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