Two people slightly injured and minor damage to buildings in the Russian capital left a drone attack denounced by Russia on May 30. The unmanned aircraft, for the most part, were intercepted by anti-aircraft defense, according to the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Semyonovich Sobyanin. The Kremlin blamed kyiv for the event and called it a “terrorist”. Ukraine denied any connection to the actions.
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Without casualties or significant damage, Moscow was the target of an unusual drone attack on Tuesday, May 30, for which it blamed Ukrainian forces.
“This morning, the Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack with drones against several points in Moscow,” the Russian Defense Ministry denounced in a statement. Immediately afterwards, the Russian authorities added that several of the drones were shot down as they approached the capital.
“There have been no deaths, and for the moment there is no threat to the residents of Moscow and its region,” Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for the Russian Presidency, told the press, hours after the new attack on Russian soil from which Kiev quickly disengaged. .
According to the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Semyonovich Sobyanin, For security reasons, the emergency services evacuated the residents of several entrances of two buildings that were hit by one of the drones.
“Immediately after the work of the special services is finished, the residents will be able to return to their apartments,” he said.
The attack in Moscow targeted some of the most luxurious districts, such as Lenin Prospekt, one of the main arteries of the capital, laid out under Stalin, and western Moscow, where the Russian elite, including President Vladimir Putin, live.
On the details, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that eight drones were launched against the city. “Three of them were suppressed using electronic equipment. They lost control and strayed from their targets. Another five drones were shot down by the Moscow region’s Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile system,” they stated.
kyiv denies involvement, Moscow sees attack as retaliation
In response to Russia’s accusation against Ukraine, the Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mikhailo Podoliak, in a YouTube channel, assured that his country had nothing to do with this attack.
“As far as the attacks are concerned, of course we are glad to see them and we anticipate further attacks. But of course we are not directly linked to these events,” he said.
The official stressed that what happens in Moscow does not matter in the least in Ukraine, where the concern is the dozens of drones and missiles launched against kyiv in recent days.
On the Russian side, they hold to the version that this attack was kyiv’s “response” to recent Russian attacks in Ukraine, Peskov said.
“It is clear that we are talking about the Kiev regime’s response to our very effective attack on one of the decision-making centers,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
The attack took place on Sunday, May 28, and was the largest drone strike ever carried out since the start of the war against the Ukrainian capital, launched 15 months ago on the orders of Vladimir Putin under the rhetoric of a “special military operation” to ” denazify” Ukraine.
It is not the first time that Russia denounces attacks on its territory
The fact has precedents. On May 2, another similar event took place against the Kremlin, also with drones. At the time, the Russian government accused Ukraine of trying to end the life of President Vladimir Putin. Two drones were shot down that time, according to the authorities of that country.
recently the The New York Times published an article reporting that US intelligence believes that Ukraine was behind a drone attack on the Kremlin in early May.
Faced with these types of statements, the president Volodimir Zelensky has assured, repeatedly and on international stages, that kyiv does not attack “neither Putin nor Moscow”.
New Russian attack on kyiv leaves one person dead
Meanwhile, Kiev woke up this Tuesday with one person dead and several injured in a residential building as a result of a new Russian attack with 31 Iranian-made drones, 29 shot down, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
A 33-year-old woman died and at least 11 people were injured in the Holosiivskyi district in the south of the capital, the most affected in this new wave of ‘shaheds’ that destroyed the last two floors of a 24-story block.
“It was horrible,” said Nikita Kuzmin, a young resident of the partially destroyed block who, since the war began, has worked for the Ukrainian Army as a volunteer fixing vehicles.
With EFE and Reuters