Moscow was again attacked with drones
Russian air defences have shot down "several" drones targeting the Moscow region, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with one of them hitting a tower that had also been attacked on Sunday, The Guardian reports.
The Russian Defense Ministry said two drones were destroyed by air defense systems in the Odintsovo and Narofominsk districts near Moscow, while a third was jammed and crashed in the capital, Russian state news agency Tass reported Tuesday morning. The institution blamed Kiev for the attacks.
Moscow's Vnukovo airport was also temporarily closed and flights were rerouted. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a Telegram post that no injuries were reported.
"The facade on the 21st floor was damaged. The 150-square-meter windows were broken," he said.
The attack on Moscow came as Russia launched its own drone strike on Kharkov, Ukraine's second largest city, injuring one person.
Two floors of a university dormitory were destroyed and set ablaze as Russia targeted "densely populated" areas of the northeastern city, Mayor Yhor Terekhov said on Telegram on Tuesday, adding that three explosions were heard in the city. Kharkiv police chief Volodimir Timoshko said there had been two strikes at night - one on the college and one on the city centre. One person was injured in the city centre.
The attacks also came two days after Ukrainian President Volodimr Zelenski said war was coming to Russia after three drones were shot down over Moscow on Sunday, although Ukraine has not acknowledged responsibility for the strikes.
"Gradually, war is returning to Russia's territory - to its symbolic centres and military bases. This is an inevitable, natural and absolutely right process," Zelenski said in his speech on Sunday.
Tuesday's attacks mark at least the fifth time unmanned aerial vehicles have hit the Russian capital since May, when two drones crashed over the Kremlin, reports news.co.uk. Moscow and its environs are more than 500 km from the border with Ukraine and the ongoing conflict there.
