# Moscow says 600 drones targeted region overnight

https://mins.news/en/item/23356

- DW, 2026-08-16 08:13 UTC
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- Original: https://www.dw.com/en/moscow-says-600-drones-targeted-region-overnight/a-78386779?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

> Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 600 drones flew toward the Moscow region overnight, with 201 destroyed and three people wounded inside the city’s MKAD ring road. Separately, a Spanish F-18 operating on NATO duty shot down a drone that entered Romanian airspace from Moldova. Authorities did not identify its origin.

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