Moscow. It is becoming customary to wake up in the Russian capital with the news that a few hours earlier, in the middle of the night, there was a new attack with drones presumably launched from Ukraine. This is what happened this Tuesday, when an unmanned aerial device crashed on the 21st floor of the IQ-Moscow City District skyscraper, the same one hit by a similar attack two days ago, while two other devices fell, demolished, in the vicinity of the most important Russian city.
The Ministry of Defense reported that it shot down two drones as they approached Moscow and a third, neutralized with radio-electronic resources, deviated from its route and fell in the Moscow business center, known as the City, in the same building where three ministries of the Russian government have offices, as do several lower-ranking federal agencies.
This time the impact shortly before four in the morning, which broke the windows and destroyed the offices, affected the area of the Ministry of Economic Development, while the other two devices, shot down by the Russian anti-aircraft defense, according to his version, collapsed in the form of fragments in the Odintsovo district, where – according to military expert Yuri Fiodorov – the central command of Russia’s strategic (medium-range and intercontinental missiles) and space forces is located, in a bunker built at the time Soviet, and in Naro-Fominsk, where one of the elite units of the Russian army, the 2nd Motorized Infantry Division, is based.
Again, for several hours the Vnukovo international airport, close to the headquarters of the General Staff of the Russian army, was closed.
Observers believe that this drone strike in Moscow, the fifth in the recent 30 days, could be a Ukrainian response to the two missiles that hit an apartment building and the University of Krivoy Rog, the hometown of the former, the previous Monday. President Volodymir Zelensky, causing – in the balance until this Tuesday – 6 deaths and more than 70 wounded.
The spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, María Zajarova, mentioned that these types of attacks are similar to the “terrorist acts of different magnitude” that we know of and equated them with those that occurred in the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001, which they caused almost 3 thousand deaths.
“(…) The methodology is the same. The City of Moscow is a civil installation, in which there are not only offices, there are also departments (for housing, in other skyscrapers) or civil offices that have nothing to do with the military sector. The painting is identical, it seems that it repeats itself, ”said Zajarova on the television program Solovyov Live.
Hours later, Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov disagreed with her, telling reporters: “I don’t see any analogy with 9/11. Of course there is a threat, it is evident, and measures are taken ”.
For the second time in two days, a drone hit a prestigious skyscraper in Moscow. The Ukrainian-made drones seem capable of flying hundreds of kilometers to attack the Russian capital. Via Graphic News.
