Russian air defenses shot down two drones aimed at Moscow overnight, officials said Wednesday, describing the unmanned aerial vehicles as Ukraine’s latest attempt to strike the city in an alleged campaign to unnerve Muscovites and take the war to Russia. The drones were intercepted on their approach to Russia's capital and there were no casualties, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
Russian air defenses shot down two drones aimed at Moscow overnight, officials said Wednesday, describing the unmanned aerial vehicles as Ukraine’s latest attempt to strike the city in an alleged campaign to unnerve Muscovites and take the war to Russia.
One of the drones came down in the Domodedovo district south of Moscow and the other fell near the Minsk highway, west of the city, according to Sobyanin. Domodedovo airport is one of Moscow’s busiest.Flights were briefly halted at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport on July 30 and Aug. 1, when drones smashed into the Moscow City business district after being jammed by air defenses in two separate incidents.
The blast occurred at a warehouse storing fireworks, he said, though it was on the grounds of a factory that makes telescopic sights and other optical equipment for the army, as well as medical apparatus. In another incident that caused alarm, Ukrainian media reported social media blogs as saying that a thick plume of smoke billowed over the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea on Wednesday. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.The Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozzhayev, said the smoke came from a “fleet training exercise” and urged local residents not to worry. “Yes, the smell is unpleasant but it is absolutely safe,” he said on Telegram.
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