MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian air defences repelled an attack by four drones flying towards Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Friday, with no injuries reported in the capital or in an earlier attack on an oil complex in one of Russia's southern regions.

Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces shot down 343 Ukrainian drones overnight, in what appeared to be Kyiv's largest ever cross-border aerial attack.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia has issued instructions according to which civilians "in no case should", in particular, "shoot down drones with improvised objects and other means," as well as use "radio equipment and mobile phones and GPS devices near the drone.

The pre-dawn attack came hours before scheduled talks between high-level delegations from Ukraine and the United States in Saudi Arabia.

On March 14, 2025, in Moscow, Russia, security video captured a Ukrainian drone being shot down near a residential complex. The UAV crashed into an unoccupied building under construction in Yuzhnaya Bitsa,

Russian air defences on Friday repelled an attack by four drones flying towards Moscow, with no injuries reported in the capital or in an earlier attack on an oil complex in one of Russia’s southern regions.

Ceasefire efforts come at a time when Ukraine is fast losing ground on the battlefield amid a freeze in US military aid and intelligence sharing