Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it had prevented a “terrorist act” by Ukraine after several drones forced a grounding of flights at Vnukovo airport outside Moscow.
It was “an attempt by the Kiev regime to attack an area where civilian infrastructure is located, including an airport that, by the way, receives international flights,” Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the Telegram platform.
Ukraine’s president “is committing these terrorist acts using weapons shipped from the West or purchased with Western funds, this is international terrorism,” Zakharova said.
“The international community must realize that the United States, the United Kingdom and France, permanent members of the UN Security Council, are financing a terrorist regime,” he added.
The presence of drones [veículos aéreos não tripulados] briefly disrupted the operation of Vnukovo airport and forced the redirection of several flights to other airports, the Russian Air Transport Agency said.
As of 07:00 (05:00 Lisbon time), all restrictions were lifted at Vnukovo airport, which “resumed activity,” the agency said in a statement.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the military neutralized five Ukrainian drones near the Moscow region in an attack that caused no casualties or damage.
“This morning, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist act with five ‘drones'” that targeted Moscow and the outskirts of the Russian capital was thwarted, the ministry said in a statement.
Russian anti-aircraft defenses destroyed four drones near Moscow and a fifth was neutralized by “electronic warfare means” near the capital, he said.
According to the emergency services, cited by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, two ‘drones’ were shot down near the town of Valouïevo, on the outskirts of Moscow, while another was neutralized near Kubinka, 40 kilometers from Moscow airport. Vnukovo.
Russian air defense also shot down a drone in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow, the official Russian news agency TASS reported.
Ukraine launched a counteroffensive on June 4 and, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the Kiev army recaptured more than 158 square kilometers in the south of the country in the last week, conquered by Russian forces, after the military operation started in February . last year.
Source: TSF
