MOSCOW In Moscow, at midday, reporters and curious citizens flocked to the green spring Cheryomushki residential area.
A drone crashed into an apartment building at 98 Profsojuznaja street early in the morning.
It had not caused great damage. From below you could see a broken window on the upper floors of the building.
Lives nearby Yekaterina Milovanova said that at that moment he was just coming home by taxi when he heard a strange sound. He guessed it was some kind of firework.
He said the incident evokes a sense of terror and insecurity.
– I came to see what happened. I guess everyone survived, which is good, Jekaterina Milovanova said.
Young people Andrei Kuznetsov and Pavel Perevalov had come to see the venue out of interest. They seemed to approach the situation quite calmly.
– After all, it’s completely arbitrary. You have to fight against it. It revealed our weaknesses and they must be corrected, Kuznetsov reflected.
– The defense must be developed so that in the future, airplanes would not fall on our civilians. Thank God now no one was injured, Perevalov said.
At least three residential buildings were hit by falling drones in Moscow. According to the authorities, there were no serious injuries.
“The child said that Moscow is being bombed”
In the Novaya Moskva district, located far from the center, near the Vnukovo airport, an unmanned aerial vehicle had crashed into the facade of a high-rise apartment building.
Photographers and curious people flocked here as well.
Local resident Vera Filina said that people woke up to the sound of an explosion at four in the morning.
– It was such a rumble. Scary, like war, Vera Filina said.
Olga Salnikova said her family woke up to the sound of the explosion.
– The child said that Moscow is being bombed. We looked out, we didn’t see anything, Salnikova said.
It wasn’t until nine in the morning that they saw what had happened.
– We are not terribly worried. However, it feels like war is somewhere nearby.
Artur Hasanov updated that this will happen in 2023.
He didn’t have enough sympathy for the Ukrainians – he said the Ukrainians had become insolent and demanded the president From Vladimir Putin hard actions.
Outside the venues, the normal bustle of the big city still continued.
The fact that some streets were closed and GPS positioning was weakened in the city seemed to hinder the lives of the residents the most. Taxi drivers and other motorists are already used to using it to navigate the city’s corners.
The image of normality was scratched
Mayor of Moscow By Sergei Sobyan has tried to maintain a sense of normality in the capital during the war.
Now there is a bad scratch on the public image.
It is the first time that drone strikes have hit residential buildings in the Russian capital.
Earlier this month, Russian officials said that an attack on the Kremlin was attempted using drones.
Russia immediately blamed Ukraine for the attack.
Putin said the drone attack was Ukraine’s response to an earlier Russian airstrike on the headquarters of Ukraine’s military intelligence.
Assistant to the President of Ukraine Myhalo Podoljak denied that Ukraine was connected to the drone strikes, but said he was happy to watch them and predicted that the strikes would increase.
The drone strikes in Moscow were very small compared to the fact that the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, has recently been the target of almost daily Russian airstrikes.
Russian officials said the air defense had worked, but the events on Telegram channels immediately caused a stir.
– If the goal of the attack was to stress the population, then the appearance of Ukrainian unmanned aircraft in the sky over Moscow is enough for that, popular war blogger channel Rybar wrote.
Founder of the Wagner mercenary company Yevgeny Prigozhin did not miss the opportunity to bark at the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu.
Prigozhin announced, using swear words, that it doesn’t matter if the minister’s villa in the elite residential area of Rublyovka burns down, but what will an ordinary citizen do when drones with explosives come through the window.
One drone has reportedly fallen near Rublyovka. There are luxurious apartments for high-ranking officials and business leaders. Putin’s official residence Novo-Ogarjovo is located quite close.