Russia’s officials informed that Ukrainian drones struck a Moscow office tower, and Russia downed multiple drones. Meanwhile, Russia repelled a Ukrainian drone attack on its patrol boats in the Black Sea, destroying three naval drones.
Russian officials said a Ukrainian drone downed by Russia on Tuesday struck a Moscow office tower that was also hit over the weekend, as multiple other drones were downed.
On Sunday, Russia said it had downed Ukrainian drones targeting the capital in an attack that damaged two office towers in Moscow City, a commercial development.
Russia’s defense ministry blamed Tuesday’s attack on Ukraine, saying that multiple facilities in the Moscow region had been targeted.
Shortly after the drone attack, Moscow’s Vnukovo international airport was briefly closed, TASS state news agency reported.
The same airport was briefly closed after Sunday’s attack, and earlier this month, a volley of drone attacks disrupted air traffic from Vnukovo to the city’s southwest.
Russia said on Tuesday that it had repelled an overnight Ukrainian drone attack targeting its patrol boats in the Black Sea.
“During the night, Ukrainian armed forces tried without success to attack with three drones, the ‘Sergei Kotov’ and ‘Vasily Bykov,’ patrol boats of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea,” the defense ministry said.
“The three naval enemy drones were destroyed,” it said, adding that the boats were attacked 340 kilometers (210 miles) southwest of Sevastopol, the base of Russia’s Black Sea fleet on the annexed Crimea peninsula.
Hostilities around the Black Sea have escalated after Russia pulled out of an agreement that had allowed the safe export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.
Miroslava Salazar with AFP
