Russia claims to intercept 3 drones from Ukraine, forcing airport closure

Russian defence ministry mentioned Sunday that it destroyed three Ukrainian drones, forcing an airport to shut and damaging workplace buildings in Moscow, as combating continues to take a toll on either side.

Of three drones, one was downed on the outskirts of the town, whereas the 2 others have been “suppressed by digital warfare” and have been compelled to crash into an workplace complicated with out injuring folks. 

The Russian capital and surrounding areas have hardly ever been attacked by the Kiyv troops — about 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border till a number of drone assaults this 12 months.

The most recent assault is one other in a sequence of current drone assaults — together with on the Kremlin and Russian cities close to the border with Ukraine — that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv.

The defence ministry known as it an “tried terrorist assault”.

“On the morning of July 30, the Kyiv regime’s tried terrorist assault with unmanned aerial automobiles on objects within the metropolis of Moscow was thwarted,” it mentioned on Telegram.

“One Ukrainian UAV was destroyed within the air by air defence techniques over the territory of the Odintsovo district of Moscow area.”

“Two extra drones have been suppressed by digital warfare and, having misplaced management crashed on the territory of Moscow-Metropolis’s non-residential constructing complicated.”

Moscow Metropolis is a industrial growth within the west of the capital.

Its mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram that the “facades of two metropolis workplace towers have been barely broken”.

He added that there have been “no victims or injured”.

Law enforcement officials had cordoned off the world.

Air site visitors disruption

In response to the TASS information company, the capital’s Vnukovo airport was “closed for departures and arrivals, flights are redirected to different airports”.

Inside lower than an hour, operations appeared to have returned to regular.

Earlier this month, a volley of drone assaults briefly disrupted air site visitors on the identical airport, to the town’s southwest.

The assaults on Moscow come a number of weeks right into a Ukrainian counter-offensive to claw again territory captured by Russia since large-scale hostilities erupted in February 2022.

Russia’s international ministry has mentioned such assaults “wouldn’t be doable with out the assistance offered to the Kyiv regime by the US and Nato allies.”

On Friday,sl Russia mentioned it had intercepted two missiles over its southern Rostov area bordering Ukraine, with a minimum of 16 folks wounded by particles falling on the town of Taganrog.

Shortly after, it mentioned it downed a second S-200 missile close to the town of Azov, with particles falling in an unpopulated space.

On the opposite facet of the border, a Russian strike killed two folks within the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia Saturday, authorities there mentioned.

And a minimum of one civilian was killed in a missile assault on the northeastern metropolis of Sumy, based on Ukrainian nationwide police, who added that there have been 5 injured.

In response to public broadcaster Suspilne, the constructing was destroyed in an explosion at about 8:00pm.