Police officers block off an area around a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 30, 2023. Three Ukrainian drones were downed over Moscow early on July 30, 2023, Russia’s defence ministry said, in an attack that briefly shut an international airport. While one of the drones was shot down on the city’s outskirts, two others were “suppressed by electronic warfare” and smashed into an office complex. No one was injured. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian officials say they shot down three Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow early Sunday, hours before the start of a major military parade attended by President Vladimir Putin.
Images from a crash site in Moscow showed the façade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor, with glass shattered and structural beams snapped and deformed.
One person was injured in the strikes, which forced the closure of airspace over Moscow and outlying regions, and an hour’s delay in takeoffs and and landings at Vnukovo International Airport, according to TASS.
The incidents were the latest in a series of attempted drone assaults — including on the Kremlin and on Russian border towns — that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv. On Monday, a drone fell in the center of the capital near defense ministry headquarters, while another hit the south of the city, gutting several upper floors of a building.
The Russian defense ministry described Sunday’s incident as an “attempt by the Kyiv regime to launch a terrorist attack by unmanned aerial vehicles” in a statement on Telegram, and said that three drones targeted the city.
Ukraine stopped short of taking responsibility for the latest attacks.
“There is always something flying in Russia, including in Moscow,” Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said on Ukrainian national television. “No matter how hard the Russian…
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