Drones reportedly shot down over Kaluga and Tver areas, bordering the Moscow area, and one over the Istra district of Moscow area.
Russia’s defence ministry stated that a minimum of three Ukrainian drones have been shot down within the newest try by Kyiv to assault websites in Moscow.
The ministry stated early on Tuesday that air defence methods destroyed two drones over the Kaluga and Tver areas, which border the Moscow area. A 3rd drone was shot down nearer to the Russian capital, over the Istra district of the Moscow area, it added.
Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated the “assault drones which focused Moscow” have been destroyed, in response to Russia’s TASS information company. Sobyanin stated on the Telegram messaging app that there had been “no casualties”, in response to preliminary data.
Particles from the downed drone within the Istra district broken a family, he stated, and drone particles within the Tver area fell within the Zavidovo village.
The Russian Air Protection Forces have destroyed unmanned aerial automobiles flying in direction of Moscow within the air over the Kaluga Area and over the Istra district within the Moscow Area, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote on his Telegram channel:https://t.co/3wd6kFJWnv pic.twitter.com/gNRcrgKcSm
— TASS (@tassagency_en) September 5, 2023
Based on Russia’s RIA state information company, Zavidodvo is residence to “Rus”, an official residence palace of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s principal residences are the Novo-Ogaryovo residence within the Moscow area in addition to the Grand Kremlin Palace – the place official occasions are held.
Russian information businesses additionally reported on Tuesday that nearly 50 flights have been cancelled or postponed on the 4 main airports across the capital – Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky. Operations resumed later within the morning.
Drone assaults on Russian territory have grow to be an nearly every day incidence in current weeks and disrupted flights out and in of Moscow in addition to induced harm to residential and industrial properties within the capital metropolis and different areas of the nation.
An enormous wave of drones reportedly destroyed 4 Russian navy heavy transport plane final week at an airfield in Russia’s western Pskov area, positioned roughly 660km (some 411 miles) north of the border with Ukraine.
Ukraine hardly ever takes direct accountability for such assaults inside Russian territory and areas of Ukraine annexed by Moscow.
However, final week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to trace that Ukraine’s forces have been behind the assault on Pksov and that Kyiv had developed a brand new long-range weapon able to attacking a lot deeper inside Russia.
