Russia says it shot down two Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the attempted strikes in a brief statement published to Telegram, stating one targeted the Domodedovo region of the city and the other flew over the M1 highway, a major thoroughfare that runs through the city to the Belarusian border.

"At the moment, there is no information about the victims from the fall of the wreckage," he said. "Emergency services are on site."

Russia's Defense Ministry confirmed the attack failed while blaming Ukraine for targeting facilities in Moscow with unmanned aerial vehicles.

"An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Moscow Region was thwarted during the night. Two drones were shot down by air defense systems," the ministry said in a report carried by Russian state-controlled news agency TASS.

Moscow has been left mostly unscathed by the 18-month war, but it has become a target of Ukraine in the past few weeks.

Kyiv's first strike on the city appears to have been in late May when a handful of drones were launched at the Russian capital but were thwarted.

Since there, there have been several strikes on the city.

Late last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned the Kremlin that it would start to feel the costs of war at home.

"Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia -- to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process," he said.