Drone footage shows Putin deploying huge anti-aircraft missiles in Moscow

According to the Russian opposition, Vladimir Putin is deploying S-400 anti-aircraft missiles in and around Moscow.

citizens complain.

Munich/Moscow - Things are not really going well for Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine war.

Boris Yeltsin's former deputy Alfred Koch taunted the Moscow ruler on Facebook, while the Russian army in Bakhmut is suffering horrendous losses.

Vladimir Putin: Russia's president apparently has S-400 anti-aircraft missiles stationed in Moscow

At the same time, the Russian metropolis of Moscow, with its millions, is repeatedly the target of hacker attacks that, among other things, simulate alleged air raid alarms.

And thus also causing uncertainty hundreds of kilometers away from the front.

As the opposition Russian news portal

now reports, Putin has apparently been building air defense positions in Moscow since the beginning of the year.

Whole batteries of S-400 long-range surface-to-air missile systems are deployed in outskirts, while mobile short-range Pantsir anti-aircraft missile systems can be seen in central Moscow around government buildings.

In the video: S-400 missiles are apparently being installed in Moscow

The Kremlin boss is apparently having large areas of green space in the outskirts cleared for air defense against any suspected threat.

However, some of these are not far from residential areas.

And not every resident likes that,

continues, referring to an unnamed commentator on a local Telegram channel.

He sarcastically remarked: "I always wanted a potential enemy target right next to my house!"

According to the report, "S-400" batteries were installed in Losiny Ostrov National Park and on a site of the Timiryazev Russian Agricultural University.

This information cannot be independently verified.

For classification:

is close to the imprisoned Russian opposition figure and Putin adversary Alexei Navalny and his network, and is therefore considered to be correspondingly critical of the Kremlin.

According to the independent media project, it aims to conduct investigative research into any abuses in Russian politics.

S-400 air defense system probably also on the premises of the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy

"It serves to protect Moscow," the news portal quotes an alleged patrolman who is doing his duty on the outskirts of Moscow's Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

This is located in the north of the Russian metropolis with its almost twelve million inhabitants.

Here, the tips of the S-400 surface-to-air missile devices are clearly visible from Valaam Strait, the report said.

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Moscow ruler: Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Accordingly, residential buildings surround the scientific campus of the Timiryazev Academy, including, for example, a nine-story house on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street just 200 meters away.

The media project writes that some local residents are worried because they now live right next to a possible military target.

S-400 air defense systems in Moscow: Missiles are also said to be in Losiny Ostrov Park

There is also a residential complex not far from the S-400 air defense system in Losiny Ostrov Park.

Here, too, the distance between the residential area and the fenced-off military battery is estimated at only around 200 meters.

Locals would typically walk their dogs there,

writes , because a recreational area is adjacent.

S-400 Triumf (anti-aircraft system)

The "S-400 Triumf" is a long-range surface-to-air missile system developed in the Soviet Union and still produced in Russia to combat fighter jets and cruise missiles as well as short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.

The entire battery, including the radar, is mounted on large mobile trucks.

The anti-aircraft missiles, which military experts say could also be used against ground targets, have a range of up to 380 kilometers and an altitude of up to 30 kilometers.

Anti-aircraft missile systems in Moscow: launchers and radar of the S-400

According to the report, the "S-400" systems in Moscow are equipped with anti-aircraft missile systems, each with four launchers on trucks.

In addition, there would be a "92H6E" multifunction radar for tracking air targets and a "96L6E" radar for determining the coordinates of air targets such as airplanes, helicopters and rockets.

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