One of the world’s largest cargo planes comes within metres of a block of flats to avoid drones

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One of the world’s largest cargo planes flew at a shockingly low altitude to avoid a swarm of Ukrainian drones early this morning.

The Russian defence ministry’s Antonov-124 stunned residents as it flew low above apartment buildings towards Vnukovo airport in Moscow.

The manoeuvre was to avoid Ukrainian kamikaze drones, which targeted Moscow during the night and this morning, causing flight chaos.

Russian air defences shot down many of the incoming unmanned drones in one of the largest Ukrainian attacks on Vladimir Putin’s capital city since the start of the war.

An explosion in a car park in Reutov – nine miles east of the Kremlin – was reported on a rare night when