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Moscow’s mayor claims that a Ukrainian drone was shot down by air defense and damaged when flying debris fell on the city’s Expo Center.
In the most recent drone assault on the Russian capital, a Ukrainian military drone was shot down by air defense systems before colliding with a structure in Moscow.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin claimed that early on Friday, air defense systems shot down a drone, and that the drone’s debris then fell on buildings in the Expo Center complex.
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Less over 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) separate the Kremlin from the Expo Center, a sizable venue utilized for important exhibitions and conferences.
In a video that was released by Russian media sites, dense smoke could be seen rising near to city towers.
Used an unmanned aerial vehicle to attack targets in Moscow and the surrounding area at around 4 am local time (01:00 GMT).
The ministry posted on Telegram,
“The UAV changed its flight path and fell on a nonresidential building in the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment area of Moscow after being exposed to air defense weapons.”
The mayor of Moscow stated that although emergency personnel were on the scene, preliminary information suggested there were no injuries.
According to Sobyanin on Telegram, “the UAV wreckage fell in the vicinity of the Expo Center, but did not significantly damage the building.”
According to emergency personnel, one of the walls of the pavilion at the Expo Center partially collapsed, according to state-run news agency TASS.
According to emergency services, the collapse’s area is roughly 30 square meters (323 square feet).
According to its website, the Expo Centre, located on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment of the Moskva River, frequently conducts exhibitions and trade shows. The location is 100 meters (328 feet) from Moscow-City, an office building in the main business sector of the capital that was struck twice in a matter of days by drone attack debris this month.
Following a rumored Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian capital on July 30, 2023, there was damage to an office building in Moscow-City. [Reuters]
According to the aviation agency,
TASS also said that the airspace over Moscow’s Vnukovo international airport was briefly closed, causing departures and arrivals to be delayed.
In the past few weeks, drone assaults on Moscow and its environs have been common. Two of these attempts were thwarted above Moscow’s financial sector, each of which resulted in minor damage to high-rise building facades. Drones were shot down in May close to the Kremlin.
The “war” was coming to Russia, the country’s “symbolic centers and military bases,” the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last month.
Russian vessels in the Black Sea were the target of a drone strike by Ukrainian marines on Thursday night, according to the country’s defense ministry.
After a Russian ship was struck, Kiev declared that drone “special operations” were authorized.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s ships were operating 237 kilometers (147 miles) southwest of Sevastopol when Ukrainian forces attempted to attack them with a “unmanned sea boat” at 10:55 p.m. local time (19:55 gmt), according to TASS news agency, citing the defense ministry.
On the Crimean peninsula that Moscow has occupied, Sevastopol serves as the base for the Russian Black Sea fleet.
The Pytlivyi frigate and the Vasily Bykov patrol ship reportedly shot down the sea-based drone before it could reach its intended target.
