As a result of the attack, the two village residents had sustained shrapnel wounds, the governor, Alexander Bogomaz, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

“The injured were promptly taken to the district hospital. Unfortunately, one of the injured, a man, died,” he said.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said earlier today that Russian air defence units had brought down a drone approaching the capital.

“Air defence units of the defence ministry repelled an attack by a drone flying towards Moscow,” Sobyanin wrote on Telegram.

“Emergency specialists are working at the site where fragments have fallen.”

A representative of Rosaviatsiya, the federal transport agency, said that the capital’s Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports had been ordered to temporarily close.

They were reopened for departing flights several hours later.

Russian air defence units downed 107 Ukrainian drones overnight, the defence ministry said today.