Russian authorities reported that three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow early on Sunday, inflicting one injury and forcing the temporary closure of one of the four airports in the area of the Russian capital.
It was the third such attempt this week and the fourth such assault against the capital region this month, adding to worries about Moscow’s susceptibility to attacks as Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its 18th month.
Three drones were claimed to have attacked the city, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, which described the incident as a “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime.” Air defense systems around Moscow shot one of them down, while two others were jammed. Those two collided with the commercial area of Moscow City.
Images from the crash site showed a skyscraper’s exterior with damage to one storey. The incident “insignificantly damaged” the exteriors of two buildings in the Moscow City neighborhood, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. According to rescue personnel and the Russian state news service Tass, a security guard was hurt.
According to Tass, no flights entered or left the southern airport of the city, Vnukovo, for approximately an hour, and all aircraft were temporarily barred from the airspace over Moscow and the surrounding areas. Since then, those limitations have been lifted.
A street close to the crash site in the Moscow City neighborhood has also been closed to traffic by Moscow officials.
The Russian people were experiencing the effects of Russia’s conflict in Ukraine, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force claimed without specifically denying that Ukraine was responsible for the attack on Moscow.
According to spokesman Yurii Ihnat, “all of the people who think the war “doesn’t worry them”—it’s already touching them.”
There is already a distinct feeling that something is loudly flying into Russia, he said. “There is no longer talk of tranquility or serenity in the heartland of Russia. They received what they desired.
Ihnat also brought up a drone attack that took place overnight in Russian-occupied Crimea. Using an electronic jamming device, Moscow claimed to have shot down 16 Ukrainian drones and neutralized an additional eight on Sunday. According to authorities, there were no casualties.
The air force in Ukraine claimed to have shot down four Russian drones over the Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk areas of the nation. Independent verification of the attacks’ information was not possible.
Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike on the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy late on Saturday night resulted in two fatalities and 20 injuries. According to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, a vocational college’s four-story structure was struck. According to local authorities, the blast and subsequent fire damaged dormitories and educational facilities.
A Ukrainian drone was shot down outside of Moscow on Friday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Two drones had struck the Russian capital four days earlier; one of them landed in the middle of the city, close to the Defense Ministry’s headquarters along the Moscow River, some three miles from the Kremlin. The other drone destroyed several upper levels of an office building in southern Moscow.
A Ukrainian drone was shot down outside of Moscow on Friday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Two drones had struck the Russian capital four days earlier; one of them landed in the middle of the city, close to the Defense Ministry’s headquarters along the Moscow River, some three miles from the Kremlin. The other drone destroyed several upper levels of an office building in southern Moscow.
The Russian military reported that in a separate strike on July 4 that four drones were shot down by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed and forced to crash.