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Ukraine attacked Moscow on Tuesday in yours the largest drone attack to datekilling at least one woman, destroying dozens of homes and forcing reroute about 50 flights from airports Russian capital.
Russia, the largest nuclear power in the world, claims to have destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones when they flew over the Moscow region, more 21 million inhabitantsand another 124 people in eight other regions.
At least one person died near Moscow, According to Russian authorities. Three of Moscow’s four airports they stayed closed for over six hours and nearly 50 flights were diverted.
Kyiv stated that Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine in February 2022, attacked it at night with 46 drones, Of these, 38 were destroyed.
Drone attacks on Russia have caused damage to apartment buildings high rise building in the area RamenskoeApartments are being set on fire in Moscow region, residents say Reuters.
A 46-year-old woman died. Three people were injured in Ramenskoye, the governor of the Moscow region reported. Andrey Vorobyov.
Residents said they woke up with explosions and fire.
“I looked out the window and saw a fireball” said ReutersYes Alexander Leeresident of the area. “The window was blown off by the shock wave”“.
George, This was reported by a resident who did not wish to give his name. heard the drone hum near my house in the first hours.
“I pulled back the curtain and it hit the building right in front of me, I saw the whole thing,” he said.“I grabbed my family and we ran.”
District of the city. Ramenskoeapproximately 50 km southeast of Kremlin, has population of about a quarter of a million inhabitants, according to official data.
More than 70 drones shot down also over the southwestern region of Russia Bryanskbordering Ukraine, and dozens more in other regionsaccording to Ministry of Defense of RussiaThere are no reports of damage or casualties.
As Russia advances into eastern Ukraine Kyiv brought war to Russia with cross-border attack on western Kursk region of Russia which began on August 6 and was carried out Ever larger drones are striking deep into Russian territory.
The war was in many ways bloody war of artillery and drones throughout the whole thousands of kilometers of heavily fortified front line in the south and east of Ukraine, in which they took part hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Moscow and Kyiv tried buy and develop new dronesuse them in innovative ways and find new ways to destroy them, from shotguns to advanced electronic jamming systems.
Both sides They turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weaponsas long as they have increased our own production and assembly For attack targets such as tanks, energy infrastructure such as oil refineries and airfields.
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, who tried to isolate Moscow from the hardships of war, claims that Ukrainian drone attacks are “terrorism” because they are directed against civilian infrastructure, and promised to respond.
Moscow and other large Russian cities to a large extent isolated from the war.
Over the past two years, Russia has attacked Ukraine with thousands of missiles and drones. one and a half, killing thousands of civilians, having destroyed most of energy system of the country and harmful commercial and residential real estate throughout the country.
Ukraine says it has the right to fight back inside Russia, although Kyiv’s Western supporters claimed that They don’t want a direct confrontation between Russia and the US-led military alliance NATO.
Ukraine did not immediately comment on Tuesday’s attacks. Both sides deny attacks on civilians.
Tuesday’s attacks followed Avalanche of drones launched by Ukraine at the beginning of September against energy and electrical installations of Russia, for the most part.
Regional authorities TulaMoscow’s northern neighbor, told Russia’s state news agency that Drone debris fell on the fuel and energy complex. but this did not affect the “technological process” of the installation.