KYIV: Ukraine attempted to launch an attack on targets in Moscow with three drones but failed to achieve its goal, said the Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the “war” was coming to Russia.
Ukraine did not directly claim responsibility for the drone attacks, but Zelenskyy said the “war” was “gradually returning to Russia’s territory – to its symbolic centers.” He described Sunday as “a good day, a powerful day” at the front.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kyiv launched three unmanned aerial vehicles at Moscow early Sunday morning. One was shot down by air defense forces over the Odintsovo district in the Moscow region, while the other two were jammed by electronic warfare systems and crashed into a non-residential building complex in Moscow.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his Telegram channel that the Ukrainian drones caused minor damage to the facades of two office towers in Moscow.
The Russian state-owned TASS news agency reported that the attack injured a security guard and caused the temporary suspension of flights at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday that Moscow would have to use a nuclear weapon if Kyiv’s ongoing counteroffensive had succeeded.
