Drones attacked Moscow for the second time in a week with at least one hitting a central area not far from government buildings, as Russian news services reported US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s plane had left the country following talks.

Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow and the surrounding region around 7:00 a.m. local time on Friday, according to Russian media reports.

Ukraine on Tuesday launched its biggest ever drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region, killing at least three employees of a meat warehouse, injuring 17 others and causing a short shutdown at the Russian capital's four airports,

Ukraine attacked Moscow with drones overnight the morning after Vladimir Putin rejected a temporary ceasefire mediated by the US. Russian air defences repelled four drones which were flying towards the capital, according to Sergei Sobyanin, the city’s mayor. Mr Sobyanin said there was little damage and no casualties.

After Ukraine staged its biggest-ever drone attack on Moscow, which coincided with the U.S.-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia, VOA Russian spoke to regional experts who saw it as Kyiv's signal to Vladimir Putin to convince him to agree to a ceasefire.

Russian air defenses shot down over 300 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian regions overnight, military officials said Tuesday, in what appeared to be the biggest Ukrainian drone attack on Russia in the three-year war.

The pre-dawn attack came hours before scheduled talks between high-level delegations from Ukraine and the United States in Saudi Arabia.

Russia unleashed a missile strike on Volodymyr Zelensky ’s home town after Ukraine targeted Moscow with a massive drone attack. The attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih killed a 47-year-old woman and wounded at least nine other people, Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on Wednesday.