Moscow taking ‘measures’ after another drone attack targets capital
Mike Brest
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Moscow is taking action to prevent drone attacks as the capital city has increasingly come under assault.
“The threat does exist, and it is clear. Measures are being taken,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, hours after Russian forces destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles in the Odintsovo and Naro-Fominsk districts of the Moscow region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram.
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A third drone was intercepted and crashed on the “territory of a complex of non-residential buildings in Moscow City,” its statement continued. It was the same skyscraper in Moscow that was hit on Sunday by a drone.
Drones flew over Moscow this past Sunday, the Friday before that, on July 24, July 4, and June 21. The most high-profile incident of the sort occurred when drones reached the Kremlin in May, though they were taken down. These incidents have caused some damage but very few casualties.
“Moscow is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war, which, in turn, will soon finally move to the territory of the authors of the war to collect all their debts,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on social media.
Russian forces have largely been able to intercept the drones in Moscow, though the attacks have brought the war to the leaders responsible for it and pulled back the curtain on the facade, or as they refer to it, “a special military operation.”
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“Ukraine is getting stronger,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during his Sunday night address. “Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia — to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural, and absolutely fair process.”
Russian officials have characterized these incidents as terrorist attacks.