<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Russian air defences destroyed a drone approaching Moscow, the city's mayor said on Friday, a day after a similar attack on the capital.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moscow has been targeted by a barrage of Ukrainian drone attacks in recent weeks after Kyiv vowed in July to "return" the conflict to Russia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Air defences near the Lyubertsy district on the southeast outskirts of the capital "thwarted another attempt to fly a drone to Moscow," Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram, without naming an attacker.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"There were no casualties or damage, according to initial reports. Emergency services are on the scene," he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Air traffic at Moscow's Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports was suspended, according to a Telegram post by the Russian daily newspaper Izvestia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Thursday air defences in the Voskresensky district, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) from Moscow, destroyed a Ukrainian drone approaching the capital.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Air defences also destroyed a drone approaching Moscow on Monday, as well as two others over the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They destroyed another drone over the Bryansk region on Friday, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz said on Telegram, naming Ukraine as the attacker.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"An aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down over the Bryansk region. There were no casualties or damage," he said, adding that emergency services were on the scene.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the eastern Kursk region, the town of Kurchatov was attacked by two Ukrainian drones on Friday, but it was not clear whether the weapons hit their targets.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"An administrative building and a residential building were damaged," regional governor Roman Starovoyt said on Telegram, adding that investigators were headed to the scene to assess the extent of the damage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kurchatov is about 100 kilometres from Russia's border with Ukraine. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>