2023-07-24 04:54:00
(CNN) — Ukrainian drones attacked two non-residential buildings in Moscow in the early hours of Monday morning and were “suppressed” by the city’s defences, Russian authorities said, describing the incident as a “botched” attack.
The attacks did not cause serious damage or casualties, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram on Monday.
Russia’s Defense Ministry blamed Ukraine, describing the attack as a “Kyiv regime terror attack” and that the two drones were “suppressed” and crashed in Moscow.
“On the morning of July 24, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to launch a terrorist attack using two UAVs once morest facilities on the territory of the city of Moscow was thwarted,” the ministry said on Telegram.
“Two Ukrainian UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were suppressed by means of electronic warfare and crashed,” the ministry added.
According to Russian state media TASS, a drone struck a high-rise business center on Likhacheva Avenue in Moscow.
TASS reports that drone wreckage was found on Komsomolsky Avenue in Moscow this Monday morning. TASS said that according to initial reports, there were no casualties.
Law enforcement and emergency services are currently working at the scene, according to TASS.
Traffic on Komsomolsky Avenue from central Moscow to the region has been blocked, TASS reported, citing the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development.
CNN was unable to independently verify the reports.
A police officer blocks a road following a drone strike in central Moscow on July 24, 2023. (Credit: Shamil Zhumatov/Archyde.com)
The reported attack comes following Russian missiles heavily damaged a historic Orthodox cathedral in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa, sparking outrage and prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to vow retaliation.
The Odessa attacks killed at least one person and wounded several more, Ukrainian officials said, the latest in a wave of attacks on the port city. The attacks also destroyed other historical buildings, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture said.
Ukraine rarely takes public responsibility for attacks that have taken place on Russian soil during the course of the war that Moscow started when it invaded in February last year, unleashing its military might on its democratic neighbor.
These include a drone strike in Moscow in May, which damaged two buildings and injured two people in which Ukraine denied direct involvement.
Earlier this month, Russia said it had “destroyed or neutralized” five Ukrainian drones in what it described as a “terrorist” attack.
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