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He said air defences southeast of the capital in Kolomna and Ramenskoye had also repelled drones, without specifying how many.

Most of the drones were downed in the Ramenskoye, Kolomna and Domodedovo districts, officials said.

In February, the authorities also reported that a Ukrainian drone was found in a forest near Gubastovo in the Kolomna region, about 80 kilometers southeast of Moscow.

The drone reported in Kolomna by the Moscow regional governor, Andrey Vorobyov, is believed to be the unmanned aerial vehicle sighted closest to the Russian capital since Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago.

The drone in the Moscow region was reportedly downed near a gas station close to Kolomna, about 60 miles southeast of the capital.