INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At least three people were killed in an unprecedented Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region, authorities said Tuesday,
"Seventy-four combat drones were shot down on their way to Moscow, with hundreds more intercepted at various points."Russia's military shot
down 91 drones in the areas surrounding Moscow, the Defense Ministry said in a statement, adding it downed another 126 over the Kursk region
50-year-old man passed away at Vidnoye hospital
Doctors fought for his life until the very end, restarting his heart four times," Vorobyov wrote on Telegram after earlier saying that a
38-year-old man was killed in a parking lot outside a meat packing plant.Local authorities later said that a third man died at the
hospital.The business newspaper Kommersant, describing the overnight attack on Moscow as the "largest" since the full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, reported that only one drone appeared to have reached the Russian capital, while the rest crashed or were downed in the Moscow
terrorism.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state-run news agency TASS that President Vladimir Putin had been briefed about the
attacks.Moscow airports lifted air restrictions around 9:15 a.m
local time after initially prohibiting flights to and from their runways, Interfax reported
Sinirlioglu was visiting Moscow."The Kyiv regime once again sent drones toward the city," Zakharova wrote on Telegram
added.Ukrainian authorities said later on Tuesday that the drone attack should pressure Putin to accept an air ceasefire proposed by
air."Tuesday's attack on the Russian capital, hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border, comes ahead of a meeting later in the day
and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia.Ukraine is set to present the United States with a plan for a partial ceasefire with Russia, hoping
to restore support from its key ally, which, under U.S
President Donald Trump, has demanded concessions from both sides to end the three-year war.The sit-down in Saudi Arabia will be the first
senior-level talks between the two countries since last month's disastrous White House meeting
At that meeting, Vice President J.D
Vance berated Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky for allegedly not showing enough gratitude to the United States, while Trump told Zelensky that
he was "playing with WWIII."Since Trump's dressing down of Zelensky, Washington has suspended military aid to Ukraine, as well as
intelligence sharing and access to satellite imagery, in a bid to force it to the negotiating table.AFP contributed reporting.
