Ukraine is ramping up its drone warfare as Moscow recovers today from what is thought to be the largest aerial assault Kyiv has inflicted on the Russian capital since the war began two and a half years ago.

In the early hours of this morning, Russian air defences shot down eleven drones over Moscow and its surrounding areas, according to the country’s defence ministry. Sergey Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, insisted that Russian defences managed to “successfully repel all the attacks”, though he did not play down the scale of the ambush, labelling it “one of the largest attempts of all time to attack Moscow with drones.”