A drone struck an under-construction building in central Moscow early on Wednesday. This was the sixth straight night of aerial attacks on Russia’s capital region, according to the news agency AFP. The City Mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, on his Telegram channel, said that the Russian military downed two more drones over the western part of the Moscow region. Russian news agency RIA reported that a loud explosion was heard in Moscow’s central district on Wednesday and soon after, flights were suspended at the city’s airports. The suspended flights were later resumed. The central district is just 5 kilometres away from the Kremlin.
The Russian Defence Ministry said that the said drone had been 'suppressed by electronic warfare' before it lost control and collided with the under-construction building. The Ministry said, “At night, air defence forces thwarted another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by three aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles on the city of Moscow.” The ministry added that there were no casualties, reported The Guardian.
The ministry also said that in addition to the Moscow city attack, two other drones were also 'destroyed by air defence systems' in Moscow’s Mozhaisk and Khimki districts.
Russian news agency TASS quoted emergency services as saying, “Window openings were knocked out in the building. The survey continues.”
The drone strikes on Wednesday were the latest in the series of attacks targetting Moscow.
Earlier on Saturday, a building in the central district was hit by a Ukrainian drone. After that, on Tuesday, British military intelligence said that a drone appeared to have destroyed a supersonic Russian bomber on an airfield which was situated hundreds of kilometres away from Ukraine. Images of an aircraft that resembled the Tu-22M3 were doing rounds on social media. Those images showed the aircraft up in flames on a runway.
Drone raids on Moscow have become regular occurrences in recent weeks, a development that follows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s warning in late July that the war Moscow had launched in Ukraine was coming to Russia.