Photos and videos posted by Moscow residents to social media depicted fires and explosions in multiple locations across the city. An oil depot in Russia's Rostov Oblast was also hit overnight.

Russian authorities reported shooting down 37 drones over Moscow on the morning of 16 June, with airport restrictions imposed and air defence systems responding.

More than 30 drones were destroyed in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and four districts of the Rostov Region, Governor Yury Slyusar said