Ukraine drones damage two Moscow buildings, no victims: mayor
Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow damaged two office blocks, the mayor said early Sunday, as an airport in the Russian capital was reportedly closed to traffic. «Ukrainian drones attacked tonight. Facades of two city office towers were slightly damaged.
There are no victims or injured,» Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram. Moscow and its environs, lying about 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border, had been rarely targeted during the conflict in Ukraine until several drone attacks this year. The attack reported Sunday is the latest in a series of recent drone assaults — including on the Kremlin and Russian towns near the border with Ukraine — that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv.
«The capital's Vnukovo airport is closed for departures and arrivals, flights are redirected to other airports,» TASS reported. «This was reported by the aviation services.» Earlier this month, a volley of drone attacks briefly disrupted air traffic at the same airport, to the city's southwest. Russia said it had downed five Ukrainian drones that night.
The attacks on Moscow come several weeks into a Ukrainian counter-offensive to claw back territory captured by Russia since large-scale hostilities erupted in February 2022. Russia's foreign ministry has said such attacks «would not be possible without the help provided to the Kyiv regime by the US and its NATO allies». On Friday Russia said it had intercepted two Ukrainian missiles over its southern Rostov region bordering Ukraine, with at least 16 people wounded by debris falling on the city of Taganrog.
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