MOSCOW—A Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow damaged a building in a central business district, authorities said Wednesday, in the sixth
Russia and Ukraine have hit each other’s cities with barrages of drones during the conflict, now bogged down as Ukraine’s troops fight a grinding counteroffensive.
Air defenses downed one Ukrainian drone in Mozhaisky district and one in Khimki district of Moscow region, Russia’s defense ministry said in a statement. Footage posted to Telegram by Russian daily newspaper Izvestia showed a fire truck and other emergency services vehicles lined up along a street below a cluster of brightly-lit skyscrapers.Emergency services were inspecting the area in the business district, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram.Sobyanin and the defense ministry said there were no reports of casualties.“A little later, smoke rose from the buildings in the same area,” it said.
Russia also said that it dispatched two fighter jets to intercept two drones over the Black Sea, without specifying which country had deployed them.
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