Drones hit several buildings in Moscow overnight, causing "minor" damage and no serious injuries, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, announced on Telegram. "Two people sought medical attention. No one needed hospitalization - he said - the necessary assistance was provided on the spot". Two houses were hit, causing "minor damage to several buildings". Residents have been evacuated, he said, but "so far no one has been seriously injured."
Emergency services told RIA Novosti news agency that two residential buildings were hit: one on Profsoyuznaya Street in southwestern Moscow and a 24-story one on Atlasova Street in the suburb of New Moscow, south of the capital. The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, said for his part that several drones were shot down and called on the population to remain calm. One of the buildings hit by drones in Moscow, a residential tower in the southwest of the city, was evacuated. According to the Telegram Shot channel, a drone crashed into the windows of an apartment on the 16th floor.
The Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of launching an "eight-drone terrorist attack" against the Moscow region this morning. Five were destroyed by Pantsir defense systems, while the other three were damaged and deviated from the trajectory they were supposed to follow. This was reported by the agency Ria Novosti.
"Of course we are happy to watch and predict an increase in the number of attacks. But obviously we have nothing directly to do with that." Ukrainian President Mykhailo Podolyak's adviser to the YouTube channel 'Breakfast Show', quoted by the Guardian, denies Kiev's responsibility behind the drone attack on Moscow.
Raid on Ukraine: hit a skyscraper, one dead and four wounded
Anti-aircraft in action in the night in Kiev, but also in other Ukrainian regions, due to new Russian raids. One person died and 13 others were injured in the attack on the capital, the third in 24 hours, the city's military administration said. Fragments of a Shahed-136 drone hit a building in Kiev's Holosiivskyi district, causing a fire. When it was switched off it was found that the last two floors had suffered serious damage and that one person had died and 4 had been injured. "The enemy constantly changes weapons for the attack - adds the military command - after the combined missile and then ballistic drone, the aggressor used exclusively UAVs". About 20 drones were launched against the city. Twenty people were also evacuated from the skyscraper. Drone pieces then caused a fire in a house in the southern district of Darnytskyi and burned three cars in the central district of Pechersky. Debris also fell in the Dnipro and Sviatoshyn districts. Tonight's air raids hit not only Kiev but also the central regions of Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Mykolayiv and the southern Kherson region.
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Ukrainian first lady Zelenska posts a video of children fleeing this morning in Kiev. Sequence of alarms in the Ukrainian capital (ANSA)