Retired Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko stated this on Espreso TV."This area has been known since Soviet times. Firstly, inside this area is the first special-purpose army for directly covering Moscow. Then the Moscow Air Defense District; there were only two of them. One Moscow and one Baku from the time of the Soviet Union. Around Moscow. So, these positions of the 25th complex, the oldest, are now used to deploy new modern equipment that they produce, which they have," he said.Romanenko emphasized that geographically, we see three rings of assets deployed by them."Experts say there are five levels in height, for example, different complexes and different means. In addition, they have formed helicopter detachments that operate against drones, which means, overall, a fairly high potential. Despite this, as we know, strikes were carried out by the Ukrainian Defense Forces on military facilities. Enterprises in the Moscow region primarily, and drones are already flying in, the inviolability was directly violated in Moscow. They reached, although the number that reached is still small. Compared to other objects, it is considered a high-level indicator if 30-40 percent of our drones reach other covered objects," the general stated.He added that, according to their estimates, only about 60% of objects in the Russian Federation are covered."A large number of them are conditionally covered, poorly covered by air defense means. Moscow and the surrounding region are, of course, quite powerful among what they have. I want to say that the means used are mainly our attack drones, which operate at night, which operate according to the terrain, and a number of others, which are not mentioned, let's say, by all our manufacturers, which are aimed at performing tasks specifically on objects in the region and directly in Moscow itself," Romanenko noted.The general believes that the question, again, is that we need to scale up this kind of production and, in addition, certainly add missile weapons to them."Now there is talk that Flamingos are already being produced by the tens, possibly up to a hundred, one way or another, a dozen have already been used, but from the point of view of an air target, it is a large missile that can be detected, tracked, and therefore destroyed. That is, the question is not just to develop some means, but the question is that this means effectively performs its tasks of hitting an enemy target. In this case, a ground, stationary one. And there is still a lot of work regarding this implementation," he said. Romanenko emphasized that Moscow is the most protected in the Russian Federation."In summary, I want to say that despite the rather powerful air defense system around Moscow, they have no other object that they would cover so much, including the Kerch Bridge, for example, not even like that. Although there, air, ground, surface, and underwater defense is carried out at the Kerch Bridge. And here, well, let's say, ground and air, but there are also means in development, and already existing means that reach targets, inflict strikes, but they need to be improved and their number increased so that such strikes have a higher potential and probability," the general concluded.