Watch | Ukraine Launches Biggest Attack In Moscow With Over 34 Drones, Russian Skies Turn Red

Moscow: Ukraine on Sunday launched its biggest attack ever against Russia since start of war in 2022 using over 30 drones. Russian forces though shot down majority of drones but some of m mand to hit residential areas in city.

drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight into Sunday, injuring a woman and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia's busiest airport, officials said. 

A top U.K. defence official meanwhile said that Russian forces h suffered ir worst month of casualties in October since ir full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

chief of U.K. defence staff, Tony Rakin, told BBC that Moscow's troops suffered an aver of 1,500 de and wounded “every single day,” bringing ir total losses in war to 700,000.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said a total of 32 drones were shot down over Russian capital's outskirts. Russia's aviation authority said flights were briefly grounded at major international airports including Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo.

A woman in her 50s suffered burns to her face, neck and hands after drones sparked a blaze in her vill souast of Moscow, local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov reported.

one was hurt in Moscow itself, according to Sobyanin, although Russian channels on messaging app Telegram carried eyewitness reports of drone debris setting fire to suburban homes.

According to Rakin, ordinary Russians were paying “an extraordinary price" for war, even as a grueling, monthslong Russian offensive in Ukraine's industrial east continues to eke out gains. He did t say how UK officials h calculated Russian casualty figures.

“re is doubt that Russia is making tactical, territorial gains and that is putting pressure on Ukraine,” he said.

But he said losses were for “tiny increments of land,” and that Moscow's mounting defense and security spending was putting an increasing strain on country.

Rakin insisted that Ukraine's Western partners should stand by it for “as long as it takes” to beat back Russian aggression, even as allies of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have signaled that Kyiv may have to cede territory to seek peace.

Both Moscow and Kyiv have kept a tight lid on casualty figures since start of full-scale war despite regular reports of Russian forces taking huge losses following “human wave” attacks that aim to exhaust Ukrainian defences.

With inputs from PTI