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Ukraine intensified air attacks on Moscow and the Moscow Region in front of the Victory Parade, to which the Kremlin invited more than 20 foreign leaders
Ukraine attacks Moscow and Moscow Region for the second night with drones. The attack on Tuesday night became the largest in two months. The Armed Forces of Ukraine increased the intensity of strikes a few days before the Victory Parade, to which the Russian authorities invited more than two dozen foreign leaders.
Details. On the night of Tuesday, over 11 regions of Russia, the air defense shot down 105 Ukrainian drones, the Ministry of Defense reported . According to the department, 32 of them were “destroyed and intercepted” over the Bryansk region, 22 - over the Voronezh, 19 - over the Moscow, 10 - over Penza, nine above Kaluga, six above the Belgorod, two over Lipetsk, one at a time above the Vladimir, Kursk and Rostov regions.
Due to the attack of drones at night, Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo airports in Moscow, as well as the airports of Volgograd , Saratov , Ivanov, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl , Kazan, Nizhnekamsk , Kaluga and Samara , were temporarily closed.
On the Kashirskoye Shosse in Moscow, the wreckage of the drone fell onto a multi -storey building. “There are no serious damage and victims, according to preliminary information,” said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Ukraine intensified air attacks on Moscow and the Moscow Region in front of the Victory Parade, to which the Kremlin invited more than 20 foreign leaders
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On Monday night, four drones were shot down on the approach to Moscow, Sobyanin and the Ministry of Defense reported.
The drones attacked the Moscow region for two nights in a row for the first time in three weeks - the last time this was April 15 and 16 . But then the scale of the attack was much smaller. According to the military department, one UAV was destroyed.
The attack on Tuesday night became the most massive air raid on the Moscow Region since March 11, when the Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 91 drones over the region (337 UAVs were shot down over the country that night).
Context. Ukraine strengthened air strikes in Russia, starting from Friday. This was preceded by eight days of continuous Russian attacks using more than 100 drones. The night on Tuesday became the third in five days, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine released more than 100 drones in Russia, after Friday and Saturday.
On Saturday, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the three-day truce declared by Russia for Victory Day, suggesting instead to declare a 30-day truce. In addition, Zelensky warned the heads of other states from arrival in Moscow: “Our position is very simple in relation to all countries that rode or go on May 9: we cannot be responsible for what is happening on the territory of the Russian Federation. They provide you with safety and therefore we will not give any guarantees. ”
On Monday, RBC said that 24 leaders of foreign states accepted the Kremlin’s invitations to the Victory Parade on May 9. The final list of foreign guests of the parade on Tuesday will be announced by Presidential Assistant Yuri Ushakov, the telegram channel “You listened to the lighthouse” said .
In several regions that were subjected to air attack on Tuesday night, there are military airfields from which planes fly up during victory parades.
- Russia on Tuesday night inflicted a massive air blow to Kharkov, as a result of which at least four people were injured. Fires arose in several areas of the city, in particular, the largest Kharkov Barbashovo market caught fire. Also, the Russian military attacked the Odessa region, where one person died as a result of a blow.