The Russian capital suffered this Tuesday a drone attack that caused “minor damage” to several buildings, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a statement on his Telegram account today:
“Early this morning, a drone attack caused minor damage to several buildings.All the city’s emergency services are on the sceneWritten by Sobyanin.
The mayor has so far stated no one was seriously injured and the circumstances of what happened are being investigated.
Second attack on the Russian capital
This is the most serious attack on Moscow since then. reported Russia Against the Kremlin on the night of May 2also with drones and that the Russian leadership directly attributed to Ukraine.
According to Sobianin, for safety reasons, emergency services evacuated residents at several entrances to two buildings that were hit by one of the drones.
“Immediately after the end of the work of the special services, Residents will be able to return to their apartments“, He claimed.
The official RIA Novosti agency reported that the crash was recorded on Profsoyuznaya street in the southwest of the capital.
“There are no victims. A temporary facility was opened to house them in a school” The governorship of the same city, southwest of Moscow, also informed the agency.
Andrei Vorobyov, the governor of the Moscow region, said for his part, that this morning residents of the province could hear the sounds of explosions due to the operation of the air defense system.
“Several drones shot down on approach to Moscow‘ he assured.
Both the governor and mayor asked citizens to remain calm.
“Trust only official sources and do not distribute unverified information,” Sobyanin said.