2023-07-30 09:17:09
Two buildings hit in Moscow by neutralized drone attack
The attack by three Ukrainian drones on Moscow has been foiled, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
“kyiv regime’s attempted terrorist attack with drones on targets in the city of Moscow was foiled”the ministry said on Telegram, adding that one drone had been shot down and two others, “neutralized by electronic warfare”had crashed into a building complex.
“Ukrainian drones attacked last night. The facades of two office towers in the city were slightly damaged. There are no casualties or injuries.”said, for his part, the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, on Telegram.
Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow was briefly closed to traffic before flights resumed early on Sunday, Russian news agency TASS reported, but it is unclear whether the events are connected.
Attacks on and around Moscow, located nearly 500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, were fairly rare from the start of the conflict in February 2022, until several drone incursions occurred in 2023.
The one reported on Sunday is the latest in a series of drone attacks – including once morest the Kremlin and Russian towns near the border with Ukraine – that Moscow attributes to kyiv. Earlier in July, Russia claimed to have shot down five Ukrainian drones that disrupted the operation of Vnukovo International Airport. These attacks come a few weeks following the launch of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, intended to retake the territories occupied by Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed the attacks, which “would not be possible without the aid provided to the kyiv regime by the United States and its NATO allies”according to him.
The damaged facade of an office building in the city of Moscow following a drone attack on July 30, 2023 in the morning. ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP AP
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