Two drones were shot down near a military base in the Moscow region early on Wednesday, without causing damage or victims, the regional governor said.

“Two drones crashed today at 5:30 and 5:50 in the morning on approach to storage units of a military base in the Naro-Fominsk district, some 50 km southwest of the city of Moscow”, local governor Andrei Vorobyov wrote on Telegram, adding that the drones had been shot down.

The attack came as Ukraine wages a counter-offensive to recapture land seized by Russian troops. Attacks, mostly by drones, on Russian territory bordering Ukraine have increased over the past weeks.