Russian authorities are blaming Ukraine for drone attacks on Moscow and Crimea Monday morning.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that there were no casualties in the city as a result of the attack, adding that there were strikes on two nonresidential buildings but “no serious destruction” was reported.
Russian media reported that the drones struck about 600 feet from the Russian Defense Ministry headquarters in Moscow, but it was not clear whether the building was the target of the attack.
Russian news media TASS reported that Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the attack was an act of “international terrorism.” The outlet also reported that the Russian Defense Ministry said “the Kiev regime’s attempt to conduct a terrorist attack on facilities in Moscow, using two unmanned aerial vehicles, was thwarted.
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Russian authorities said that a separate drone attack in northern Crimea struck an ammunition depot and disrupted highway and railway traffic. The Moscow-appointed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, claimed that 11 attacking drones were brought down by the military, adding that residents were asked to evacuate who were in the three-mile radius of the drone attack.
Ukrainian authorities did not appear to immediately take responsibility for the attacks, but Ukraine’s digital transformation minister Mykhailo Fedorov posted on Telegram that they signaled Russia was “less and less able to protect the skies of the invaders,” adding that “there will be more of it.”
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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that there were no casualties in the city as a result of the attack, adding that there were strikes on two nonresidential buildings but “no serious destruction” was reported.https://t.co/ZQfwIPQven
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