Moscow, 26 November 2023 (dpa/MIA) - The Russian military now says it intercepted 20 Ukrainian drones over its own territory overnight, revising its initial account of fighting off 11 drones reported earlier.

Five drones were shot down in the Moscow region. Three buildings were damaged, according to Governor Andrey Vorobyov, but there were no casualties.

Due to the drone attack, two airports south of Moscow, Domodedovo and Vnukovo, were temporarily closed. More than a dozen flights were delayed and three were cancelled.

The Kaluga and Tula regions south of the capital and the western Russian region of Bryansk off the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea were attacked, the ministry said.

In the Tula region, where three drones were intercepted, the debris from a downed drone hit a multi-storey residential building, damaging the façade. One resident of the house was slightly injured by shattered glass, regional Governor Alexei Dyumin said.

Ukraine has been fending off a large-scale Russian invasion for 21 months. Kiev is defending itself with Western military aid. There was initially no reaction from Kiev to the alleged drone attacks.

The war's long front line - which stretches from the Black Sea coast up to Ukraine's north-eastern border with Russia - is increasingly seen as being largely at a standstill.

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