Russian authorities yesterday accused Kyiv of another attack on Moscow and the surrounding area with drones, one of which hit a building in the capital that was damaged by a drone in a similar attack on Sunday.
Russian officials have said that the intensified attacks on the capital region reflect failures in Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said over the weekend that “the war is gradually coming back to Russian territory,” but stopped short of taking responsibility for the attacks.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense yesterday said that it shot down two Ukrainian drones outside Moscow and jammed another, sending it crashing into a skyscraper in Moscow’s business district and damaging the building’s facade.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the third drone crashed into the same building that was damaged in a similar attack early on Sunday.
IQ-Quarter, 7.2km from the Kremlin, houses government agencies, including the headquarters of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Sobyanin said that yesterday’s attack did not cause any casualties.
Zelenskiy’s adviser Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on X that Moscow “is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war, which, in turn, will soon move to the territory of the ‘authors of the war’ to collect all their debts,” without confirming or denying Kyiv’s involvement in the attack.
The Russian military also said that Kyiv’s forces attacked two of its warships in the Black Sea overnight using maritime drones.
Three drones targeted two patrol vessels 340km southwest of the Russian-controlled city of Sevastopol on the annexed Crimean Peninsula, the ministry said.
All three drones were destroyed, the report said.
The attacks on Moscow and Crimea followed a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine and Zelenskiy’s hometown.
Monday’s strike partially destroyed a residential building and killed at least six people, wounding dozens more.
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