Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Moscow and five other Russian regions Sunday, officials here reported, injuring one person and forcing three airports to temporarily halt operations.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defense systems intercepted 84 Ukrainian drones over the Moscow, Bryansk, Oryol, Kaluga, Kursk and Tula regions. Thirty-four of those drones were shot down over the Moscow region, the ministry said – making it the largest Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow since Russia invaded the country more than two years ago.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported drones being shot down shortly after 7 a.m. local time. Andrey Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, said in a Telegram post that there had been a “massive drone attack.” A 52-year-old woman was hospitalized with shrapnel injuries and burns to her face, neck and hands and was in intensive care, he said.
The Defense Ministry said “falling debris in three settlements” injured five people and caused four house fires.
Unverified videos circulating on Russian Telegram channels appeared to show significant damage in the wake of the attacks, with dark smoke billowing from several houses and forests and cars and residential buildings on fire. Social media was flooded with users posting footage of drones flying over their district.
Moscow’s Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Sheremetyevo airports briefly suspended flight operations, with a total of 36 flights being diverted, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency reported.
Ukrainian officials have not commented publicly on the attack on Moscow. The general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said Sunday morning that its drone unit “inflicted fire damage on ammunition warehouses” of a military logistics center in Bryansk, in southwestern Russia.
Ukraine’s allies have restricted its forces from using Western weapons systems for long-range strikes on Russian territory, which Kyiv says would limit Russia’s capacity to carry out attacks on Ukrainian civilians and critical infrastructure.
But the restrictions do not extend to Ukraine’s domestically produced weapons systems. In recent months, Ukraine has used its drones to carry out several strikes deep within Russia.
On Sept. 1, Russia shot down 158 drones – including 11 over Moscow and the surrounding region – which targeted power plants and oil refineries, with fires breaking out at several facilities, including in Moscow.
On Saturday, Ukrainian drones struck a chemical plant in the Tula region, Ukrainian intelligence officials said. Earlier in the week, they hit a naval base in the city of Kaspiysk on the Caspian Sea, almost 1,000 miles from the Ukrainian border.
Ukraine’s armed forces said in a Sunday morning statement that Russia attacked overnight with a “record number” of drones across the country and damaged buildings. Oleh Kiper, governor of the southern Odessa region, said two people were hospitalized with injuries.
The last major Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow took place on Sept. 10, killing one person and wounding eight. Russia’s Defense Ministry said at the time that 20 drones were shot down in and around Moscow.
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Is Zelenskyy acting within International Law?
With these, heavier than anything previous, new attacks on Russia’s capital & other cities, the severely wicked Zelensky, clearly following the orders of his severely wicked bosses in the severely wicked regimes now ruling over our country of the United States and other countries of NATO, are again trying very extremely hard to incite Russia to likewise heavily respond at our counties’ cities and thus start full Nuclear World War III, Rachmana Litzlan.
Of course, they are extremely mad that their severely wicked puppet Kamila did not win last week’s US Election, with the vote instead going to President Trump, who openly promised to quickly end the Ukraine war and has already started giving President Putin peace proposals with huge concessions.
THEY ABSOLUTELY CANNOT ALLOW THIS!! THEY ABSOLUTELY CANNOT ALLOW PRESIDENT TRUMP TO ACTUALLY (AGAIN) BE PRESIDENT!! THEY ABSOLUTELY CANNOT ALLOW THIS UKRAINE WAR TO END!! THEY ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE THEIR NUCLEAR WORLD WAR III!!!!!!!!!!
For these severely wicked western regime leaders are clearly puppets of the severely evil New-World-Order-One-Government-World-Gang, Yimach Shemam V’Zichram, whose core belief is that there are far too many people in the world, and that these far-too-many-people-in-the-world must be eliminated!! And probably THE fastest & most effective way to eliminate these large numbers of this (supposed) “over” population is to quickly massacre them in a massive nuclear war, Rachmana Litzlan.
It is glaringly obvious that is in ONLY the Infinite Chesed Hashem why, so far, this has not actually occurred, why, so far, no “mushrooms” have actually appeared on the horizon. We must certainly continue to beg Hashem to continue to fully protect us all and fully save us all from these severely diabolical plans of these severely evil people and quickly bring on them a total downfall and bring us all Moshiach Tzidkaynu & the Geula Sheleima Bimhayra B’Yamaynu!!