Russia announced that on Monday it shot down two Ukrainian drones in the Moscow region, where incidents of this type have increased in recent weeks.
“An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles was thwarted” on Monday night, the Russian Defense Ministry said on the Telegram messaging platform.
“Two drones were detected and destroyed by air defense systems over the territory of the Moscow region,” it added.
According to the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, one plane was shot down in the Krasnogorsk region, 20 kilometers northwest of the Kremlin, and a second in the Chastsy region, about 50 kilometers southwest of central Moscow.
Flights at Moscow’s international airports were even suspended, according to the Russian state agency TASS.
Attacks with drones on Russian territory have been intensifying for several weeks, generally without causing damage or casualties, and are directed especially at the Russian capital, located more than 500 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
On Monday, Russia said it had stopped fresh Ukrainian drone strikes near Moscow and in the Kaluga region, which caused no casualties or damage.
In late July and early August, other planes were destroyed over Moscow’s business district west of the capital, causing light damage to the facades of two towers. In May, two drones were shot down over the Kremlin and others hit apartment blocks in Moscow.
At the end of July, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, welcomed the fact that “the war has reached Russian territory.”
Source: TSF
