Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 109 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles between 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Moscow time on Dec. 30 over Bryansk, Kaluga, Moscow, Kursk, Voronezh, Belgorod, and Smolensk regions, including 8 over the Moscow region with 3 flying toward Moscow, according to a statement from the Радар ВРВ channel released in the past 29 minutes. The breakdown includes 80 UAVs over Bryansk region, 10 over Kaluga, 7 over Kursk, 2 over Voronezh, and 1 each over Belgorod and Smolensk, as detailed by Радар ВРВ. Images from the channel also showed UAV flights near Lakes in the Moscow region during this period. Separately, an ongoing attack by unknown drones on occupied Melitopol caused a citywide blackout, according to Exilenova+ citing local reports shared on X in the reporting window. These interceptions follow power outages affecting up to 600,000 subscribers in Moscow region suburbs including Zhukovsky, Lytkarino, and Ramenskoye earlier from 4:46 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. UTC, which authorities attributed to a substation accident amid unmanned aerial danger, per Exilenova+ and Supernova+ channels in the previous report.
