The Ukrainian army carried out new drone attacks in Russia, targeting Moscow and its region for the sixth consecutive day, but also the border region of Belgorod where three people were killed on Wednesday. The attacks came hours after three people were killed and two others injured in Russian shelling of two villages near Lyman in eastern Ukraine, according to the head of the local military administration.
The Ukrainian attack in Belgorod killed “three civilians” in the village of Lavy, Valuysk district, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. “Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an explosive device via drone when people were on the street,” he said.
In the Moscow region, a drone “was neutralized by electronic warfare means and, having lost control, collided with a building under construction in the Moscow City complex” without causing any casualties, the ministry said. Russian Defense on Telegram, accusing Kiev of being behind the attack.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that several windows in two five-story buildings had been damaged and emergency services were inspecting the perimeter. Russian news agency RIA Novosti earlier reported that an “explosion” was heard in the business district of Moscow City, located in the west of the Russian capital, some 5 kilometers from the Kremlin.
At the level of an edge of a skyscraper, a window appeared destroyed and the windows around blackened, noted a photographer from Agence France-Presse (AFP), while police cordoned off the perimeter.
Two other devices were destroyed by air defense in the districts of Mojaisk, 12 kilometers from the center of Moscow, as well as Khimki in the capital region, some 20 kilometers northwest of the Kremlin. , according to the Department of Defense.
The carcass of the drone shot down in Khimki damaged, without causing any injuries, the roof and the windows of a house as well as the wall of a non-residential building housing businesses, according to RIA Novosti. Air traffic at Moscow’s Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo international airports was briefly disrupted, state news agency TASS reported, citing emergency services.
Russian territory is now targeted almost daily by drones, like Moscow and its region, targeted every day since Friday. On Friday, a craft was shot down by Moscow forces and crashed in the area of ??the Exhibition Center, adjacent to the skyscrapers of Moscow City. During the summer, other aircraft were destroyed over the business district of Moscow, the most important of the Russian capital, and in May, two drones were shot down near the Kremlin.
In Ukraine, Russian forces “hit villages in Lyman community” in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday evening: “Three people were killed and one injured in Torske, another civilian was injured in Zakitne ”, wrote the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, on Telegram.
In addition, a Russian drone attack during the night damaged Ukrainian grain infrastructure in the Odessa region (south), local governor Oleg Kiper said on Wednesday morning. In total, the Ukrainian army destroyed nine “Shahed-136/131” type drones from the eastern coast of the Sea of ??Azov, the South Ukrainian Defense Forces reported on Telegram.
