The incident is alleged to have occurred near the city of Kolomna, southeast of the Russian capital.
Governor Andrei Vorobyov announced the incident shortly after the Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have shot down two Ukrainian drones in the south of Russia during the night.
– The target was probably a civil infrastructure facility. There were no injuries, the governor claimed in a message Telegram.
There have also been no reports of injured persons following the alleged attack.
– The FSB and other relevant authorities are handling the situation. There is nothing that threatens the citizens’ safety, writes Vorobyov.
– We win. We’re crazy enough
Ukraine: – Putin can get very scared
Images shared in Russian media and social media show a broken drone lying in the snow just outside a forest clearing.
They have not been verified by independent actors.
BBC writes that the drone’s appearance matches a drone of the type UJ-22 Airborne, which is produced by Ukrainian Ukrjet. According to the manufacturer, this drone has a range of 800 kilometers – enough to reach the area where it is claimed to have crashed from Ukrainian territory.
Anton Herashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, has published a photo of the drone on Twitter.
– It is more than 500 kilometers away from the border between Russia and Ukraine. Soon, Putin may become very afraid to appear in public, as drones can reach far, he writes.
Moscow has accused Kyiv of being behind several attacks on Russian territory in the past year, but Kyiv has not confirmed this.
Putin: – Must answer
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday instructed the FSB to step up activity to prevent espionage and sabotage against Russia.
He claimed that such activity, carried out by Ukraine and the West, is increasing.
– Western intelligence services have traditionally always been active in Russia, and now they have splurged on additional personnel, technology and other resources. We have to answer this, said the president, according to Reuters.
Specifically, the FSB was asked to prevent the illegal importation of weapons into Russia, strengthen security in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine and strengthen its counterintelligence activity.
– Significant information about the systems of our military and police, the defense industry, critical technologies and personal data must be well protected, Putin said.
He did not highlight any specific failure in the intelligence, but the comments suggest concern about possible vulnerabilities.
