Moscow attacked by Ukrainian drones as explosions heard and buildings hit
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Ukraine has reportedly launched a drone attack on Moscow overnight in an apparent retaliation strike for the Kremlin's three-day bombing of Kyiv.
Residents in the Russian capital reported hearing explosions and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin later confirmed buildings had been damaged, but claimed no one had been seriously injured.
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Two buildings were evacuated in the course of the attack, he confirmed.
Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the wider Moscow region, later said several drones were “shot down on the approach to Moscow.”
Ukraine has not yet commented on the attack publicly.
It was the second reported an attack on Moscow, after authorities said two drones targeted the Kremlin earlier this month in what was labeled an attempt on President Vladimir Putin’s life.
In the attacks overnight on Kyiv, one person died and three were injured when a high-rise building in the Holosiiv district caught fire.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze but frequently the falling debris from drones being hit and the interceptor missiles have caused damage on the ground.
The building’s upper two floors were destroyed, and there may be people under the rubble, the Kyiv Military Administration said. More than 20 people were evacuated.
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The series of brutal Russian attacks started on Sunday, including a rare daylight attack Monday that left puffs of white smoke in the skies.
On that day, Russian forces fired 11 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv at about 11:30 a.m., according to Ukraine’s chief of staff, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
All of them were shot down, he said.
Debris from the intercepted missiles fell in Kyiv’s central and northern districts during the morning, landing in the middle of traffic on a city road and also starting a fire on the roof of a building, the Kyiv military administration said. At least one civilian was reported hurt.
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The Russian Defense Ministry said it launched a series of strikes early Monday targeting Ukrainian air bases with precision long-range air-launched missiles.
The strikes destroyed command posts, radars, aircraft and ammunition stockpiles, it claimed. It didn’t say anything about hitting cities or other civilian areas.
The news comes after Vladimir Putin appeared to stoke tensions in the region by offering to give nuclear weapons to any country that joins his alliance with Belarus against Ukraine.
The bombshell move was revealed by Belarusian President and close Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko, and comes just weeks after Russia moved part of its nuclear arsenal into Belarus, which borders Ukraine to the north.
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