2023-07-24 04:28:58
According to Russian information, Moscow was attacked by two drones on Monday night. No one was injured and there was no major damage, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, according to the state news agency TASS. The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine’s attempt to carry out a terrorist attack in Moscow using two drones had been foiled.
A drone was spotted in the center of the capital, and another hit an office building in the south of the city, said an emergency services employee. An explosion was heard. Sobyanin spoke of two buildings that had been hit.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, drones had already been shot down over the Moscow area in early July. At the time, the Ministry of Defense blamed Ukraine for the drone strikes. Russia has been waging a war of aggression once morest neighboring Ukraine for 17 months.
There were also drone attacks on the capital Moscow in May. According to the authorities, houses were also damaged and people were injured in an attack at the end of May. As a consequence, Russian President Vladimir Putin had called for an improvement in their own air defense systems. Attacks have also been increasing in Russia for weeks – mostly in the immediate border region with Ukraine.
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