Apartment building in Chekhov near Moscow damaged in drone attack, regional governor says


July 28 (Reuters) - ⁠An apartment building in Chekhov ⁠near Russian capital Moscow has ‌been hit in a drone attack, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said in ​a Telegram post on ⁠Tuesday.

Vorobyov accompanied his ⁠post with a photograph of a ⁠tall ‌building with blown-out windows and black smoke ⁠rising from its top floors. There ​were ‌no casualties, Mikhail Sobakin, Chekhov's ⁠mayor, said ​separately on Telegram later.

Defences downed a few dozen drones elsewhere ⁠in the region, including ​in Podolsk, Domodedovo and Kolomna, Vorobyov said.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said ⁠on Telegram that over 390 drones were heading towards the region between late Monday and early ​Tuesday, of which ⁠81 were downed close to ​the Russian capital ‌city.

(Reporting by Jekaterīna Golubkova ​in Tokyo; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Stephen Coates)

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