Upper-middle-class neighborhoods in Moscow, Russia have been targeted by a wave of drones, according to multiple reports.
The drones appear to have been aimed at the residences of government officials, wealthy tycoons, and ordinary civilians, with Britain’s Telegraph newspaper noting there are “no known military or industrial targets nearby” to the targeted areas.
“This morning, the Kyiv regime launched a terrorist drone attack on targets in the city of Moscow. Eight drones were used in the attack,” claimed the Russian ministry of defense.
“Three of them were suppressed by electronic warfare, lost control and deviated from their intended targets. Another five drones were shot down by the Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile system in the Moscow region,” they added.
Some residential buildings do appear to have been struck, however.
“Regarding the attacks: of course we are pleased to watch and predict an increase in the number of attacks,” commented Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor at the Head of the Office of President of Ukraine.
“But of course we have nothing directly to do with this,” he added.
The attacks follow an attempted drone strike on the Kremlin, which U.S. officials believe was the work of Ukrainian security services.
The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv (Kiev) has been subject to some of the most intense missile and drone strikes of the war in recent weeks – but the Mariinskyi Palace, which once hosted Catherine the Great and now serves as the official residence of the President of Ukraine, appears to have been spared.
