No one was hurt in Moscow itself, according to Sobyanin, although Russian channels on the messaging app Telegram carried eyewitness reports of drone debris setting fire to suburban homes.

Russia launched a record 145 drones against Ukraine on Saturday night, marking the largest single-night aerial assault of the war. Ukraine responded with a major counterattack, firing 34 drones towards Moscow.

Dozens of Russian drones targeted Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in an eight-hour nighttime attack, authorities said Thursday as Russia kept up its relentless pounding of Ukraine after almost 1,000 days of war.