Russia foiled a new Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow and its region early Tuesday, Russian authorities said, saying one of the drones slammed into an office building in a Moscow business district, which had already been targeted on Tuesday. Last weekend.
An attempted night attack on Kyiv by means of “unmanned aerial vehicles against infrastructure in Moscow and the Moscow region has been foiled”, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram.
A drone “was neutralized by (means of) electronic warfare and, having lost control, crashed on the territory” of the business district of Moscow City, added the Russian Defense.
He “hit the same tower of the City (of Moscow) as the last time,” said the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin on Telegram. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, several windows of two buildings in Moscow City, the city’s most important business district, were blown out after a Ukrainian drone attack, Mr. Sobyanin reported.
“The facade at the level of the 21st floor was damaged, the windows were broken on an area of ??150 m2. There is no information about victims,” ??said the elected official about the attack. Tuesday, explaining that emergency services are on site.
According to the Russian state news agency TASS, debris from the craft was found and will be examined.
Two other drones were destroyed by air defense over the territory of Odintsovo and Narofominsk districts in the Moscow region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport was temporarily closed before returning to normal operation, state news agency TASS said, citing emergency services. It had also been briefly closed early Sunday during the previous drone attack reported by Moscow.
Attacks on the Russian capital and its surroundings, located about 500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, have been rare since the conflict began in February 2022. In recent months, however, several drone incursions have targeted Moscow, including one against the Kremlin in May 2023.
Without mentioning this attack, Kiev having the habit of not claiming its possible operations carried out in Russia, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had noted on Sunday that the “war” is coming “on the territory of Russia, in its symbolic centers and its military bases “.
“It is an inevitable, natural and absolutely right process,” he added.
Early Monday, Kryvyi Rig, the hometown of Mr. Zelensky, located in central Ukraine, was the target of two Russian missiles.
One of them destroyed an entire section of a building, killing six, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother, and injuring 75, according to the head of the military administration of this city, Oleksandr Vilkoul.
Russia said to increase the bombardments in Ukraine, while justifying them.
“The intensity of strikes on Ukrainian military installations, including those supporting these terrorist acts, has increased sharply” in response to recent attacks targeting Russian territory, the Russian Defense Minister said on Monday. Sergei Shoigu in a speech in the presence of military officials.
In the territories occupied by Russia, Ukrainian bombardments also killed four people and injured 10 on Monday in Donetsk, a stronghold of pro-Russian separatists in the east, according to pro-Moscow authorities.
Another person died in Ukrainian shelling on Gorlivka, near Donetsk, and three others in a strike on an occupied village in the Zaporizhia region, which also left 15 injured, according to the authorities.
08/01/2023 05:35:59 – Moscow (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
