Moscow was under siege earlier today by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drones just hours after Vladimir Putin unleashed a barrage of suicide UAVs on the Ukrainian capital of kyiv.
The suspected Ukrainian drones attacked the wealthy Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital, including the elite Rublyovka district, damaging a number of buildings.
Explosive drones hit housing blocks on Leninisky Prospekt and Profsoyuznaya Street near central Moscow, reportedly injuring several people and damaging buildings.
Moscow, located more than 620 miles from Ukraine, has rarely been the target of drone strikes since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, even though such strikes have become more common in other parts of Russia.
The unusual drone strike in and around Moscow came after Russia launched a pre-dawn attack on the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday, killing at least one person and sending Kiev residents into shelters to escape. of a relentless wave of day and night bombardments.
Moscow was under siege earlier today by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacks just hours after Vladimir Putin unleashed a barrage of suicide UAVs in the Ukrainian capital of kyiv.
The suspected Ukrainian drones attacked the wealthy Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital, including the elite Rublyovka district, damaging a number of buildings.
Investigators gather evidence as they work outside a damaged multi-story apartment block following a drone strike in Moscow on Tuesday.
At least 20 Iranian-made Shahed drones were destroyed by kyiv’s air defense forces in Russia’s third attack on the capital in the past 24 hours.
The drone of the drones, which are packed with explosives, could be heard over the city followed by loud explosions as they were shot down by air defense systems.
One person died and three were injured when a high-rise building in the Holosiiv district caught fire.
The top two floors were destroyed and there may be people under the rubble, the kyiv military administration said. More than 20 people were evacuated.
Elsewhere in kyiv, falling debris caused a fire in a private house in Darnytskyi district and three cars caught fire in Pechersky district, according to the military administration.
Hours after the attack, Ukraine is reported to have launched a rare drone strike against Moscow and surrounding wealthy areas.
‘This morning, at dawn, a drone attack caused minor damage to several buildings. All the city’s emergency services are on the scene… No one has been seriously injured so far,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
Residents of two buildings damaged in the attack on Moscow have been evacuated, Sobyanin said.
Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the wider Moscow region, later said several drones were “shot down as they approached Moscow.”
Images posted on social media showed trails of smoke in the sky. Others showed a broken window.
An apartment building burns after being damaged during a massive Russian drone strike in kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
Firefighters work near cars damaged during a massive attack by Russian drones in kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
Ukrainian air defense intercepts a Shahed drone in the air in Russia’s third air strike against the capital in the last 24 hours in kyiv on Tuesday.
Ukrainian air defense intercepts a Shahed drone in the air in Russia’s third air strike against the capital in the last 24 hours in kyiv on Tuesday.
Until now, Moscow has largely been a safe haven from attack in the war with normal life despite the chaos and misery that Vladimir Putin has unleashed on dozens of Ukrainian cities.
The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, warned Russia that it would see a swift response to unprecedented drone and missile attacks on kyiv in recent days.
“All those who tried to intimidate us, dreaming that this would have some effect, will regret it very soon,” Budanov said. Our answer will not be long in coming. Soon the whole world will see everything.
However, there was no immediate confirmation that Ukraine was behind the assault on Moscow, in which drones flew over Rublyovka, home to many of Putin’s closest oligarchs and not far from his official residence in the Moscow region.
The drones exploded in the suburbs of New Moscow and Novaya Riga, near Moscow. A drone struck the upper floors of a residential building at 98 Profsoyuznaya Street, destroying part of the apartment building.
A second struck a 24-story residential tower on Atlasova Street in New Moscow.
Meanwhile, drones were seen in the sky over towns near Moscow, including Funkovo, Kezmino and Romashkovo.
Local residents in the Moscow region filmed the drones flying overhead, with one saying, ‘F*** what a moment I caught. The b**** is right next to our house. F***! Should I get out of here? I went out on the roof to check and they were getting closer and closer.
It was the second reported attack in Moscow, after authorities said two drones attacked the Kremlin earlier this month in what was called an attempt on the life of President Vladimir Putin.
Today’s attacks in Moscow and Kiev came a day after Russian forces fired a barrage of missiles into Kiev on Monday, sending terrified residents running for cover in a rare daytime attack on the Ukrainian capital after of night attacks.
