Drones attacked Moscow and annexed Crimea

Around four in the morning, Moscow was attacked by two drones. Damage was received by two non-residential buildings, said the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin.

“There is no serious damage or casualties. All operational services are working on the spot, ” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to TASS, one UAV fell on Komsomolsky Prospekt, another hit the building of a business center on Likhachev Street. There are broken windows on the 17th and 18th floors.

The Ministry of Defense said that both drones were "suppressed by electronic warfare and crashed." The Russian military department laid responsibility for the strike on the Ukrainian authorities.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the strike "an act of international terrorism," RTVI reports.

At about eight in the morning, the head of the annexed Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that 11 drones were shot down or suppressed by air defense forces and electronic warfare in the sky over the peninsula. Later, the Ministry of Defense clarified that a total of 17 drones were launched across the peninsula, 14 of which were suppressed and crashed, and three more were shot down by air defense fire.

Despite the fact that, according to the Russian authorities, not a single attacking drone reached its target, the impact hit an ammunition depot.

“There was a hit in the ammunition depot in the Dzhankoy region. Also, UAV wreckage damaged a private house in the Kirovsky district, ” wrote Aksenov.

A few minutes later, he reported that the authorities "for security reasons, are suspending traffic on the railway in the Dzhankoy region and the Dzhankoy-Simferopol highway." Traffic was restored after an hour and a half.

In addition, began the evacuation of residents of villages located within a radius of five kilometers from the ammunition depot, which the UAV hit, . They were taken to temporary accommodation centers. According to Aksenov and the Ministry of Defense, there were no casualties.

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