War in Ukraine: in Moscow, two houses were hit by a drone strike

Last night, three drones attacked the city of Moscow. The facades of two office towers in the city were slightly damaged. There are no victims or injured, ”said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Telegram. “As a result of an explosion on the 5th-6th floors of a 50-storey building at Presnenskaya Embankment, 10с2, the outer glazing was damaged,” TASS quoted an eyewitness as saying.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, “an attempt by the Kiev regime to use drones on targets in the city of Moscow was thwarted,” adding that one drone was shot down and two others were “neutralized by electronic warfare” before crashing into a building complex. .

The attack forced Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport to stop traffic before flights resumed early Sunday morning, Russian news agency TASS reported.

Attacks on Moscow and its environs, located almost 500 km from the border with Ukraine, have been rare since the beginning of the conflict, although there have been several recent attacks. Already in July, Russia announced that it shot down five Ukrainian drones that disrupted the operation of Vnukov International Airport in Moscow. On Friday, Russia said it had intercepted two Ukrainian missiles over the southern part of the Rostov region bordering Ukraine, at least 16 of them injured by debris falling on the city of Taganrog.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laid the blame for the attacks, which “would not have been possible without the assistance provided to the Kyiv regime by the United States and its NATO allies.”

Kyiv has not yet commented, but Ukraine generally refuses to take responsibility for the attacks on Russia.