KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian air defenses shot down two drones aimed at Moscow overnight, officials said Wednesday, in what they described as Ukraine’s latest attempt to strike the Russian capital in an apparent campaign to unnerve Muscovites and take the war to Russia.
The drones were intercepted on their approach to Moscow and there were no casualties, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. The Russian Defense Ministry described it as a “terrorist attack.”
One of the drones came down in the Domodedovo region south of Moscow and the other fell near the Minsk highway, west of the city, according to Sobyanin. Domodedovo airport is one of Moscow’s busiest.
It was not clear where the drones were launched from, and Ukrainian officials made no immediate comment. Ukraine usually neither confirms nor denies such attacks.
Flights were halted at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on July 30 and Aug. 1, when drones smashed into the Moscow City business district after being jammed by air defenses in two separate incidents.
In May, Russian authorities accused Ukraine of attempting to attack the Kremlin with two drones in an effort to assassinate President Vladimir Putin.
Recent drone attacks have aimed at targets from the Russian capital to the Crimean Peninsula.
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
2024-12-24 06:482104 view
2024-12-24 06:272278 view
2024-12-24 06:001642 view
2024-12-24 05:44274 view
2024-12-24 05:332488 view
2024-12-24 04:251916 view
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge set an April retrial date on Tuesday for Sarah Palin’s libel case ag
NEW YORK (AP) — The news lit up the world of weed: U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the fe
A 911 call about a car driving with a cow inside it in one of northeast Nebraska’s biggest cities wa