Two people killed as Ukraine launched drone attacks on final day of presidential vote, says Russia

They also said that a drone fell on a refinery in the Krasnodar region, sparking a blaze that was extinguished a few hours later.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that a fifth drone, close to the capital’s Domodedovo airport, was downed on Sunday morning.The defence ministry said two drones were shot down over the Kaluga region, just south of the Russian capital, and four in the Yaroslavl region, northeast of Moscow. More Ukrainian drones were downed over the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov regions that border Ukraine, and the southern Krasnodar region, the defence ministry said.

There have been a series of Ukrainian drone raids over the past few days which Mr Putin described as an attempt by Ukraine to frighten residents and derail Russia’s presidential election.

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