Alert in Moscow after a new attack with more than 25 drones on a neighborhood where Putin lives

Several drones hit several buildings in the most expensive neighborhood in Moscow, where Vladimir Putin and the elite have apartments, causing “minor” damage and two injuredalthough none serious. The Russian capital’s anti-aircraft defense systems also destroyed several approaching drones, Russian official sources reported early on Tuesday, which accuse kyiv of “terrorist attack”.

“All the City emergency services are at the scene of the incidents“, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his Telegram messaging channel. Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, said, also on Telegram, that several drones were shot down when they approached Moscow.

It is not clear who has launched the drones, what have been eight according to the Russian Defense Ministry, but over 25 according to local media. Russia has attributed responsibility for the attack to Ukraine, although it could not be independently verified. kyiv, moreover, denies having a direct relationship with the events.

“Regarding attacks: of course we are happy to see and predict an increase in the number of attacks. But obviously, we have nothing to do directly with this“Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak told the YouTube channel “Breakfast Show”.

“This morning, the Kiev regime launched a terrorist drone attack against targets in the city of Moscow. Three of them were suppressed by electronic warfare, lost control and strayed from their intended targets. Five other drones were shot down by the Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile system in the Moscow region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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Putin’s house

Drone debris hit some of Moscow’s most prestigious and expensive areas, including Leninsky Prospekta large avenue designed under the dictatorship of Josef Stalin, and the area of ​​western Moscow where the Russian elite, including President Vladimir Putin, have their residences.

Residents of this area said they heard loud banging around the 05:00 local timewhich were followed by the smell of gasoline. Some filmed the downing of a drone and a plume of smoke rising over the Moscow skyline.

In a post on Telegram, Alexander Khinshtein, a leading Russian parliament member from the ruling United Russia bloc, said the three neutralized drones were shot down over three areas of Rublyovka, one of which is just 10-minute drive from an official Putin residence in Novo-Ogaryovo.

Sobyanin added that some residents were being evacuated. The Russian state news agency RIA confirmed that some residents of a building on Moscow’s Profsoyuznaya street, in the south of the city, were being evacuated.

Attacks in kyiv

Shortly before this alleged attack on Moscow took place, strong explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital for the third night in a row as a result of a new Russian bombardment, the third in the last 24 hourswith 20 kamikaze drones that caused the death of at least one personkyiv Mayor Vitalii Klychko reported on his Telegram account.

All the drones were shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defensesaccording to the report of the regional Military Administration, but the remains of some of the unmanned devices fell after the interception on residential areas, causing damage to homes and private vehicles.

According to Mayor Klychko, four people were injured and they have been hospitalized and 20 residents of a block of flats in one of the affected areas of the capital were evacuated after the remains of a drone caused a fire in the building.

“The enemy continues to attack the capital“, wrote the mayor in his Telegram account. “Tonight the explosions have been heard in many areas of the city. One person has died,” Klychko said.

In the Darnytskyi district the fall of drones caused fires in two houses individuals. Three cars caught fire in Pechersk and a multi-storey block caused another fire in Holosiivskyi, the district where the victims occurred and where a building was evacuated.

There were also explosions in Svyatoshynskyi and Podil, where a fire broke out in a residential building.