New attack in Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry, which has been carrying out an offensive in Ukraine for more than a year, accused Kiev of carrying out “a terrorist attack with drones against sites in Moscow” at dawn on Tuesday. Minimal damage, no casualties and neutralized drones… Update on the irruption of drones attributed to Ukraine by the Kremlin.
What is the result of the attack?
“This morning, at dawn, a drone attack caused minor damage to several buildings. All city emergency services are on site […] No one has been seriously injured so far,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. Ukrainian media, citing Russian channels, say the events took place around 4 a.m. “One drone reportedly hit the upper floors of residential building number 98 on Profsoyuznaya Street, another reportedly damaged a building on Atlasova Street. A third drone reportedly hit the 14th floor of a high-rise building on Leninsky Avenue, but did not explode. The Kyiv Independent.
According to Sergei Sobyanin, the authorities evacuated the inhabitants of two residential buildings in Moscow, damaged by the drones. They “will be able to return to their apartments as soon as the special services have finished their work,” said the mayor of the Russian capital. He also announced that two people had been slightly injured. “All the city’s emergency services are on site. […] No one has been seriously injured so far,” he said on his Telegram channel.
Why so little damage?
For his part, the governor of the Moscow region, Andrey Vorobyov, indicated that several drones had been shot down near the capital. “This morning, residents of some districts of the Moscow region could hear the sound of explosions, it was our air defense system,” he wrote. He called on residents to “keep their cool” and assured that “all the emergency services are doing their job. »
“Several drones were shot down on the approach to Moscow,” he said. “This morning, the Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack with drones against sites in Moscow,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. “Eight drones were involved in the attack,” he said, assuring that they had all been neutralized. The Kremlin also indicated that Vladimir Putin had been kept informed “live” of the drone attack and wanted to reassure the population by saying that there were “no threats”.
Rare attacks in Russia
The Russian Investigative Committee, responsible for the main investigations in the country, said in a statement that it was investigating the events. Moscow and its region, located more than 500 km from the Ukrainian border, have so far been very rarely targeted by drone attacks since the start of the conflict, even if this type of attack has multiplied elsewhere in Russia. In early May, two drones were shot down over the Kremlin, the seat of Russian power, in an attack blamed on Ukraine.
Other attacks have nevertheless multiplied in recent weeks on Russian soil, with in particular a spectacular incursion last week in the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine. In recent months, drones have also targeted military bases or energy infrastructure in Russia. kyiv has not claimed responsibility for any of these attacks.
kyiv still targeted
On the other side, kyiv was once again targeted by Russian drones overnight, which killed at least one person, according to the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko. “From 11:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m., Russian occupation troops attacked Ukraine” with 31 Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 drones, 29 of which were shot down, “almost all near the capital and in the sky of Kiev”, claimed the Ukrainian Air Force on Telegram.
Monday, Russian strikes in the middle of the day had caused panic in the Ukrainian capital, attacked on multiple occasions since the beginning of May.