Ukrainian drone hit a constructing in central Moscow on Friday, disrupting the entire Russian capital’s main airports, Russian officers have claimed.
Witnesses reported listening to a “powerful explosion” after the drone hit a non-residential constructing in Moscow’s Expo Centre complicated.
Images confirmed employees and emergency employees inspecting a broken roof of the constructing which the drone hit.
The Russian defence ministry and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated there have been no casualties after air defences destroyed a drone which then fell onto the constructing
The Expo Center is a big unfold of exhibition centres and multi-purpose halls round three miles away from the Kremlin.
“At about 4 am Moscow time, the Kyiv regime launched one other terrorist assault utilizing an unmanned aerial car on objects positioned in Moscow and the Moscow area," the Russian defence ministry said.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, although Kyiv does not routinely comment on whether it has launched attacks on targets in Moscow.
Air-traffic was briefly suspended at four major airports around the capital - Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky - though later they reopened.
Russia’s air transport agency said seven flights were redirected to alternative airports.
Drone air strikes deep inside Russia have increased since a drone was destroyed over the Kremlin in early May.
According to US media reports, United States intelligence agencies believed Ukrainian spies or military intelligence were behind the strike.
Since then, a series of drone strikes have struck Russia, several buildings which were damaged on May 30 in the south west of Moscow.
On July 30 and 31, two other separate drones crashed into the glass facade of a skyscraper just a few hundred metres from the Expo Center.
At the time, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said the war was “returning to the territory of Russia".
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