A civilian was wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow early Sunday morning, Russia’s TASS news agency reported, citing Russian emergency services.
The Russian Defense Ministry said three drones targeted the Russian capital. It said one was shot down, and two were “suppressed by electronic warfare” capabilities and crashed into a building complex in Moscow’s business district. The TASS report said the wounded civilian was a security guard.
The incident marks the third Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow within a week. The Russian Defense Ministry said that it thwarted a drone attack that targeted the capital on Friday with no casualties reported.
According to CNN, Yurii Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, said the purpose of the drone attacks on civilian areas of Moscow is to impact those who feel the war is distant.
“There’s always something flying in Russia, as well as in Moscow. Now the war is affecting those who were not concerned,” Ihnat said. “No matter how the Russian authorities would like to turn a blind eye on this by saying they have intercepted everything … something does hit.”
A few hours after the Sunday attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the war in Ukraine was “gradually returning” to Russia. “Ukraine is getting stronger, and the war is gradually returning to Russia’s territory, to its symbolic centers and military bases,” he said. “This is an inevitable, natural, and absolutely fair.”
After a Ukrainian drone attack that targeted Moscow on January 24, Ukraine’s military intelligence said such operations will “continue and increase in scale.” The New York Times reported in June that the Biden administration was no longer concerned about the risk of Ukrainian attacks inside Russia escalating the war.
Grandiose Ukrainian statements aside, this was to be expected, surely. After all, there’s a war on and both sides are using aerial drones to attack targets in each other’s cities? So, the surprise here is why is there surprise.
Biden just won’t give it a rest until he escalates us into a nuclear war and the planet into a bunch of craters. And we’re all at his mercy of this 37% approval octogenarian retaining some sanity…Oh and we’re likely to get Biden v. Trump matchup again. Heaven help us all.
Hey, at least one of them says he wants to “stop the killing”.
It’s soooo crazy and bizarre now, I predict it will be Trump and Biden again unless they do convict Trump. Trump was bad but nobody except a loyal Dem. can say Biden is better. We went from the frying pan into the fire, and the fire may get hotter like H bomb fire. But, if Trump does win, I predict it will get even worse. He had his chance to do something positive, but he followed the same course as the past administrations. So many frauds in politics today, just like in the past, but the degree of fraud is much higher.
The whole point of the Ukrainian drone program is to attempt to influence (as in intimidate and instill fear in) civilians in Eastern Ukraine and Russia. These recent attacks have no real impact on Russian property, military tactics, or strategy.
Psychological warfare 101.
i wonder how did a drone manage to make it all the way from Ukraine to Moscow
without being intercepted. anyway that’s why they call it “war”
It surprises you that Russia is not omnipotent within it’s borders? That’s a dumb objection.
Of course the drone got close! That’s what they’re designed to do.
I’ve searched for the exact systems Russia used to take the drones down, and I couldn’t get a firm answer, but it’s very likely the drones were taken out by the R-330Zh Zhitel. Depending on the application and circumstances, Zhitel has a range of 30km to 10km. So is it really any wonder how a drone made it all the way to moscow? Perhaps because not every square inch of russia is covered by a jammer? Perhaps because it’s more economic to protect your cities than the country side?
Moscow is not the country side, it is THE city. yes i find it surprising that during a war, Russia would not have seen a slow-flying drone coming from a long way away headed towards their capitol city.
I didn’t claim Moscow was the country side, so I don’t understand your complaint.
We don’t know when they saw it. For all you know, they knew the drone was coming the moment it took flight in Ukraine.
We know when they were downed. And 2 of them were downed by jammers near Moscow. It makes perfect sense if the hangers have a range of 10 km that it took them that long to down the drones.
i wasn’t complaining about you.
Oh, sorry. I’m being a little touchy, aren’t I.
One?
Come to Chicago and be a innocent bystander.
You get at least 5 innocents every weekend it seems.
For the Chicago body count, go to heyjackass.com. It has all the stats and history. Last week was a bad one. And, the long hot summer isn’t over yet.
Chicago will always have a high body count.
Yeah, that happens in war. Too bad Wash. is against any negotiations to end the slaughter of young men on both sides. Unconditional surrender won’t happen, especially when Russia is winning. What will probably happen like most wars in Europe it will go full blown war with two sides full of allies and there goes another war where cities will be bombed and casualties will be in the millions. America and the new world may have a violent societies with it’s guns, but that doesn’t compare to Europe which goes to war and massacres each other periodically. And, now it’s the USA who’s provoking more and more war around the world and it cares not that it lost wars in the past because there’s never a policy to win; winning would end the war, but endless war is good for the MIC, Wash. and Wall St. It’s all about MONEY in the end. Marx was right about that one.
Not a bad trade-off for Russia: 3 broken windows in Moscow as opposed to Krivoy Rog, Nikopol and Kherson getting the crap bombed out of them..