Moscow and occupied Crimea were attacked by drones

In Moscow, two drones hit non-residential buildings, said Mayor Sergei Sobyanin . In occupied Crimea, a UAV hit an ammunition depot in the Dzhankoy district, people within a five-kilometer radius are being evacuated, railway traffic in the Dzhankoy region and the Dzhankoy-Simferopol highway were temporarily suspended, said the head of the occupation administration Sergei Aksenov.

Consequences of a drone strike on Moscow
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The wreckage of a drone in Moscow was found near house number 17 on Komsomolsky Prospekt, the second UAV hit a business center under construction on Likhachev Avenue, TASS reports . In a building on Likhachev Avenue, glass was broken over an area of 50 square meters on the 17th and 18th floors. Traffic along Komsomolsky Avenue and Likhachev Avenue was blocked.

The head of the investigative publication Bellingcat, Hristo Grozev , noted that near the site where the drone debris fell on Komsomolsky Prospekt there is a Military University, as well as secret facilities of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate, in particular the “cyber attack headquarters.” Nearby, on Frunzenskaya Embankment, there is a building of the Ministry of Defense.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the UAV attack on Moscow “an act of international terrorism.”

On July 24, 17 drones were shot down over occupied Crimea, claims . the Russian Ministry of Defense

Context

In July 2023, Ukrainian drones regularly attacked occupied Crimea.
On July 22, as a result of a UAV attack, explosions occurred at a military airfield and an ammunition depot in the village of Oktyabrsky.
On July 20 , it was reported that as a result of a drone attack in the village of Razdolnoye, a teenage girl, who “was going to watch the sunrise with her friend,” was killed.
On July 19 , a training ground was attacked in the Kirov region of Crimea. The ammunition exploded for more than a day.
Moscow last suffered a major drone attack on May 30. Pro-government telegram channels reported an attack by “dozens” of drones. Two people were injured as a result of a UAV hitting residential buildings.
On May 3, drones struck the Kremlin. Russian authorities called the incident an “attack on Putin.”