In a conference call with reporters, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Putin was at the Kremlin following the Tuesday strikes on Moscow, saying that the president “received information directly from law enforcement agencies, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the mayor of Moscow and the governor of the Moscow region” after starting his working day early. CNN has geolocated footage from Ilyinskoye that shows a drone flying across the sky. Russian lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said Tuesday several drones were downed in Rublyovka, including one in Ilyinskoye, a village around two and a half miles from Novo-Ogaryovo. The area is also very close to Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo residence where the Russian leader is known to spend most of his time. Some of the drones apparently hit or flew over Rublyovka, a prestigious suburban area in Moscow’s southwest where oligarchs, politicians and top officials live in luxurious gated communities. Instead, it appeared to strike near the heart of Russia’s political and economic elite. For starters, this was not a symbolic blow against the Russian state, such as the murky drone strike on the Kremlin. Tuesday’s strikes, however, seem qualitatively different than previous attacks. “What is growing in Russia is the karmic payment that Russia will gradually pay in aggravated form for everything it does in Ukraine,” he added. “But of course, we have nothing to do directly with it.” “Of course, we enjoy watching and predicting an increase in attacks,” said Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak. Ukraine denied involvement in Tuesday’s attack, even as one top official made it clear that Russia was getting a taste of its own medicine after months of bombarding Ukrainian cities. The Kremlin accused Ukrainian helicopters of striking inside Russian territory Friday, claims Kyiv neither confirmed nor denied.Īnd earlier this month, drones penetrated the rings of security surrounding the Kremlin, the very seat of power in Russia.Īn ambulance and firefighting vehicles are parked outside a multi-storey apartment block following a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia. In the months since, regions of Russia bordering Ukraine have come under fire, with local officials reporting occasional shelling by the Ukrainian side. Since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of last year, most of Russia has been spared the kinds of scenes that Ukrainians routinely endure. A few hours later, Sobyanin said residents evacuated from apartment buildings hit by drones were returning home.īut it’s unlikely that Moscow can return to its uneasy status quo of life during what the Kremlin euphemistically refers to as the “special military operation” in Ukraine. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin gave updates on Telegram, telling residents that emergency services were on the scene and that two people were injured, with none hospitalized. Another hit a flat on the 14th floor of an apartment building on Leninsky Prospekt, one of the city’s main arteries. According to state news agency RIA-Novosti, one unmanned aerial vehicle struck the upper floors of a residential high-rise in southwestern Moscow, damaging the facade of the building. On Tuesday morning, a wave of drone strikes hit the Russian capital. Russia’s war on Ukraine, it seems, has come home to Moscow.

Air defenses spring into action, and the authorities put out preliminary statements confirming a strike.īut this time, the shattered glass and concrete is in the Russian capital, not Kyiv. It’s a familiar routine for Ukrainians: Explosions ring out in the city, then videos emerge of drones overhead.

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