The attack, this Tuesday, July 4, targeted sites near Moscow and its region, and disrupted the operation of Vnukovo international airport.
” This morning an attempt by the kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist act was prevented with five drones targeting sites in the Moscow region and at the far end of the Russian capital, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. Four drones were destroyed by anti-aircraft defense near the capital and the fifth was neutralized by “ means of electronic warfare “, before crashing in the Moscow region, according to the same source.
The attack caused no casualties or damage, the ministry said. ” All attacks repelled by air defense, all detected drones neutralized “, welcomed on Telegram the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin.
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According to the emergency services quoted by the public news agency RIA Novosti, one of the drones was neutralized near Kubinka, located about forty kilometers from the Moscow airport of Vnukovo, the operation of which was briefly disrupted due to of the attack. Vnukovo airport, where several flights were redirected to other airports in the morning, ” resumed his work at 5 a.m. UT, according to the Russian Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia).
“ Terrorist act »
After the attack, Russian diplomacy denounced a ” terrorist act from Kyiv. ” An attempt by the Kiev regime to attack an area where civilian infrastructure sites are located, including an airport which, by the way, receives international flights, is a new terrorist act “, said on Telegram the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova.
Considering that Ukrainian President Volodymyr ” Zelensky commits these terrorist acts using weapons delivered by the West or purchased with Western funding, this is international terrorism “, she said.
On June 21, Russia announced that it had neutralized three drones in the region of its capital, including two near a military base, accusing kyiv of being behind this attack. In early May, two drones targeted the Kremlin in Moscow, and other devices had hit buildings in the Russian capital at the end of the same month. Ukrainian forces launched a large-scale operation in early June to retake the territories occupied by Russia, but the gains remain limited for the moment.
(With AFP)
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