Russian officials claimed the intensified attacks on Moscow reflect failures in Ukraine's counteroffensive, while Ukrainian President Zelensky said that “the war is...coming back to Russian territory,' but did not take responsibility for the attacks.
in around 48 hours, damaging the building’s facade and further underscoring the Russian capital’s vulnerability. Russian authorities accused Ukraine of staging the assault.tweeted that Moscow “is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war,” without confirming or denying Kyiv’s involvement.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the drone crashed into the same building that was damaged Sunday in a similar attack. IQ-Quarter, located 7.2 kilometers from the Kremlin, houses multiple government agencies, including the headquarters of the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.It wasn’t clear why the same building was hit twice in a row.
Russian news agency Interfax cited Darya Levchenko, an adviser to the economic development minister, as saying that the ministry's staff worked from home Tuesday while damage to the office was assessed. Monday's strike partially destroyed a residential building and killed seven people. Dozens more were wounded.
The most advanced defense systems around Moscow "are typically optimized for ballistic missile defense and are looking at targets and objects which are coming in at extremely high speeds and from very high angles,” Bronk said. Russian forces shelled the city of Kherson and hit a medical facility, according to regional Gov. Roman Mrochko, killing a doctor and wounding one nurse.
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