According to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, the Russian air defense system downed two military drones that were headed towards the capital and noted that no fatalities had been recorded.
Mayor’s response
The latest in a wave of drone strikes on the city, Russian officials reported on Wednesday that two Ukrainian military drones heading for Moscow were shot down.
The planned attack came a day after Pokrovsk, a city in eastern Ukraine, had nine people killed as a result of airstrikes.
“An attempt by two combat drones to make it into the city was captured on camera. “Air defense shot both of them down,” stated Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, on Telegram.
He said that one drone had been shot down in the Domodedovo neighborhood on the city’s southern outskirts and a second was downed west of the capital in the vicinity of the Minsk highway.
According to the Russian defense ministry, Ukraine used unmanned aerial vehicles in its invasion attempt.
Terrorist attempt failed
There have been no reported injuries.
Later, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Ukraine’s effort to target buildings in the Moscow Area using a drone had failed and that air defense systems had shot down two drones.
“During the night, a terrorist strike attempt by the Kyiv regime using unmanned aerial vehicles over the area of the Moscow Region was prevented. According to the claim, air defense systems shot down two drones.
According to the ministry, as reported by the TASS News Agency, the attempted terrorist act did not result in any injuries or property damage.
Moscow: target for Ukraine
Emergency personnel arrived on the scene, but there was no information yet regarding casualties of the wreckage’s fall, the mayor also added.
According to Russian officials, the drones from Ukraine were shot down on August 6 and August 7, making the strikes at least the third attack on Moscow in a week.
Up until a few incidents this year, Moscow was seldom ever targeted during the Ukraine crisis.
Less than 200 kilometers (124 miles) southwest of Moscow, in the Kaluga area, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that seven drones had been shot down.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, issued a warning on July 30 that “war” was imminent and that “symbolic centers and military bases” in Russia would be attacked.
At the beginning of this month, pieces of a crashed drone attack impacted an office building in the capital’s major commercial center twice in as many days.
