Ukraine-Russia war – live: Moscow suffering highest casualties of war as Kyiv launches major drone attack
Ukraine attacks Moscow and its region with at least 32 drones in early hours
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Your support makes all the difference.Russia is losing the highest number of soldiers a day since Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the UK army chief has claimed.
Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC that Russian forces were suffering 1,500 casualties a day. He described the cost of the war on the Russian people as “extraordinary”.
“Russia is about to suffer 700,000 people killed or wounded – the enormous pain and suffering that the Russian nation is having to bear because of Putin’s ambition,” said Sir Tony.
Russia has seized swathes of territory in eastern Ukraine over the past few months, however, a fact which is likely correlated with the high casualty toll.
It comes as a major Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region forced Russia to close two major airports in the early hours today.
The drones were destroyed in the Ramenskoye and Kolomensky districts of Moscow, its mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, claiming no major damage or casualties at the site of the downed weapons.
Russia’s federal air transport agency said it was temporarily restricting operations at the Domodedovo and Zhukovo airports at 5.30am GMT.
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Ukraine downs 32 out of 51 Russian attack drones overnight
Ukraine has downed 32 out of a total 51 Russian attack drones launched overnight, its air force said in an update this morning.
Out of these, 18 drones disappeared from radar in various regions across Ukraine, it said.
The Ukrainian military said the attack involved Russian “Shahed-type” attack drones and that “the epicentre of the strike is Odesa”.
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