MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian air defences shot down eight drones en route to Moscow on Monday, the city's mayor said, a day after a Ukrainian strike on a power and heat station cut off heating for thousands outside the Russian capital.

On Sunday, Ukraine launched a drone strike on the Shatura Power Station near Moscow. The attack caused a fire at the site and necessitated the activation of backup power. The governor of the Moscow region reported that some drones were intercepted,

Russia struck residential parts of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Friday, Ukraine said, killing six people in a single apartment block in attacks President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced as “heinous” and aimed at civilians.

Russian air defences downed a Ukrainian drone en route to Moscow on Monday, the city's mayor said, forcing three airports that serve the capital to temporarily restrict all incoming and outgoing flights.

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