Four more drones downed while approaching Moscow — mayor

Four more drones downed while approaching Moscow — mayor First responders are working at the crash sitesMOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. Four more drones have been taken down while approaching Moscow, the Russian capital’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in two posts on Max. "Two more drones have been downed. First responders are working at the crash sites," the mayor wrote in the first statement. Less than an hour later, he posted a similar statement about two more drones. Sobyanin said around midnight that two drones had been downed. This brings the overnight total to six. 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