Russia claims to have destroyed 3 Ukrainian drones that were shot down over Moscow

The Ministry of Defense of Russia has said that 3 Ukrainian drones were shot down early Sunday morning towards Moscow.

According to the news of the foreign news agency ‘AFP’, an international airport was closed for a short period due to this attack.

One drone was shot down on the outskirts of the city, the other 2 drones were controlled by electronic warfare and destroyed in an office complex, no one was injured during the operation.

The area, located about 500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, has rarely been targeted during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and has seen several drone strikes this year.

The attack, reported on Sunday, is the latest in a series of recent drone attacks on Russian towns near the Russian-Ukrainian border, which Russia has blamed on Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry called it a ‘terrorist attempt’, the Russian Defense Minister said in a statement on the social networking site Telegram that the Ukrainian government’s terrorist attack by unmanned aerial vehicles in the city of Moscow on the morning of July 30. The attempt was failed.

The Ukrainian UAV was destroyed in mid-air by air defense systems in the Odintsovo district of Moscow, two more drones were intercepted and crashed into a non-residential building complex after losing control, the statement said. gone.

The city mayor said in a message on Telegram that the front part of two office towers of the city was slightly damaged in the drone attacks, but no one was affected or injured.

The capital’s airport was closed to arrivals and departures, while flights were diverted to other airports, state news agency Tass reported.

Flight operations returned to normal in less than an hour The airport was briefly closed to air traffic after drone strikes earlier this month.

The latest attacks come as Ukraine retaliates to retake territory it seized after the Russian invasion that began in February 2022.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said that such attacks would not have been possible without the assistance provided to the Ukrainian government by the United States and its NATO allies.

On Friday, Russia said it intercepted two missiles that landed in its southern region near the border with Ukraine, injuring at least 16 people.

It then said it shot down another missile whose debris fell in an uninhabited area.A Russian attack in a southern city across the border killed two people, officials said.

According to the Ukrainian National Police, at least one civilian was killed and five wounded in a missile attack on the northeastern city.

It should be remembered that earlier in early July, a Russian drone attack on an apartment building in the same city killed three people and injured 21.