Three Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow early this morning, resulting in one person being hurt.
One of the four airports near the capital was temporarily closed as a result of the attack.
Screams could be heard as witnesses saw a drone fly into a capital city office block before a massive explosion late on Saturday night.
Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, wrote on Telegram that “the facades of two city office towers were slightly damaged.” There aren’t any victims or hurt people.
The drone attack is the most recent in a string of recent ones that Moscow has attributed to Kiev.
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It occurs a day after it appeared that Ukraine fired its first missiles at Russian ports as the battle in the Black Sea grew more intense.
It was the third attack on the capital region this week and the fourth this month.
As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its 18th month, it has increased worries about Moscow’s susceptibility to assault.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, three drones were used to strike the city in what they called a “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime.”
Air defence systems in the area around Moscow shot down one and jammed two others.
The capital’s Moscow City business centre was struck by those two collisions.
Images from the crash site showed a skyscraper’s exterior with damage to one storey.
According to rescue personnel and the Russian state news service Tass, a security guard was hurt.
According to Tass, no flights entered or left the southern airport of the city, Vnukovo, for approximately an hour, and all aircraft were temporarily barred from the air space over Moscow and the surrounding areas.
Since then, those limitations have been lifted.
A street close to the incident site in the Moscow City neighbourhood was also closed to traffic by Moscow officials.
Officials from Ukraine, who almost never accept responsibility for attacks on Russian territory, made no immediate comments.
A Ukrainian drone was shot down west of Moscow on Friday, according to the Russian Defence Ministry.
The Russian capital was hit by two additional drones on Monday, one of which landed in the middle of the city close to the Defence Ministry’s offices along the Moscow River, around two miles (3 km) from the Kremlin.
The other destroyed several higher stories of an office building in southern Moscow.
The Russian military reported that in a separate strike on July 4 that four drones were shot down by air defences on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare tools and forced to crash.