Russia said it had shot down two Ukrainian drones near Moscow on Wednesday, in the latest attack on the capital city.
The defence ministry said one drone was shot down near a major airport to the south of Moscow, and one to the west of the capital near the Minsk Highway.
A defence ministry spokesperson decribed it as “an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack with unmanned aerial vehicles”.
Ukraine has not commented on the attack.
“Two combat drones have attempted to fly to the city. Both were shot down by air defense systems, one in the Domodedovo area, and another one in the vicinity of Minskoye Highway,” Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on social media app Telegram, according to Russian state-owned news agency TASS.
“No injuries have been reported.”
The incident follows a number of recent drone strikes upon the Russian capital.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky warned the war was “returning” to Russia after Moscow was hit by a drone attack just over a week ago.
Russia’s airspace was briefly closed after it brought down what it claimed was three Ukrainian drones in the early hours of Sunday, July 30.
Nobody was hurt in the incident and Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said there was only minor damage to the facade of two office buildings in the Moskva-Citi business district which is several miles from the Kremlin.
Kyiv typically does not claim responsibility for specific incidents on Russian territory, and did not claim the attack, but President Zelensky said the war was “gradually returning to Russia’s territory – to its symbolic centres”.
Moscow was targeted by a second attack just two days later, on August 1.
Russia again downed the drones, but one struck the same high-rise tower in the Moskva Citi business district, a few miles from the Kremlin, that had been targeted in the earlier strike.
Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed its forces had “thwarted a terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime” and downed two drones.
