Another five drones were shot down by the Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile system in the Moscow region.”ĭmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, said Vladimir Putin had no immediate plans to address the country and claimed there was “no imminent threat to residents of Moscow and the Moscow region either”.Ī Ukrainian presidential aide denied Kyiv was directly involved but said Ukraine was enjoying watching the events and predicted an increase in such attacks. “Three of them were suppressed by electronic warfare, lost control and deviated from their intended targets. “This morning, the Kyiv regime launched a terrorist drone attack on targets in the city of Moscow,” the Russian defence ministry said. “Russia reserves the right to take the harshest possible measures in response to the terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime. “Assurances by Nat officials that the Kyiv regime will not launch strikes deep into Russian territory prove to be completely hypocritical,” the ministry said. The Russian foreign ministry said it reserved the right to take the most “severe measures” in response. Russia blamed the drone attack on Ukraine – which denied responsibility – and threatened retaliation. Looking like a scaled-down light aircraft, the UJ22 has a claimed range of 800km and is able to fly for six hours.Ġ0:25 Damaged apartment block in Moscow following drone strikes – video Footage appears to match images of the unmanned aerial vehicle, which Russia has claimed has been used in other attempted attacks. Putin also claimed Russian forces were only striking military facilities in Ukraine using “high-precision weapons”.Īt least one of the drones appears to have been a Ukrainian-manufactured UJ 22, produced by the Ukrjet company. In a television appearance on Tuesday, Putin praised Moscow’s air defences and said Kyiv was trying to scare Russians by striking civilian targets. “It was fucked up, everyone came out on their balconies or went outside, no one understood what was happening,” said the security guard. He was based in the elite gated community in Zhukovka, near where the strikes took place.Īlexander Khinshtein, a prominent member of Russia’s parliament, wrote on his Telegram channel that drones were shot down in five different areas in the Moscow region, including at least two that were flying over Rublyovka, a wealthy suburb that is home to much of Russia’s political elite including Vladimir Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo state residence. “I woke up at 6.15 from a loud explosion, and then for the next 45 minutes there were around six other booms every 10 minutes or so,” a security guard told the Guardian. The Russian defence ministry said eight drones targeted the city overnight but Russian media close to the security services wrote that the number was many times higher, with more than 30 drones participating in the attack.

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