Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The war between Russia and Ukraine is still ongoing today. Most recently, Kremlin authorities claimed that Kyiv attacked Moscow with dozens of drones overnight, Sunday (26/11/2023) local time.
The Ukrainian drone attack was claimed to have been carried out a day after Russia launched a similar attack on its neighboring country. Ukrainian officials previously acknowledged being attacked in what they called the “most intense” attack on Kyiv since the start of full-scale war in 2022.
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“Russian air defenses downed at least 24 drones in the Moscow region – which surrounds, but does not include the capital,” reported CNBC Internationalciting the Russian Defense Ministry and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
“(Other drones attacked) four other provinces in the south and west,” he added but made no mention of any casualties.
The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyev, wrote on Telegram that the drone strike damaged three unnamed buildings there. He added that no one was injured.
Meanwhile, a Russian Telegram channel reported that a drone crashed into a 12-story apartment block in the western Russian city of Tula, about 180 kilometers (113 miles) south of Moscow. This attack is said to have injured one resident and frightened other residents.
“Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports in Moscow were also closed due to the drone attack,” according to the Russian state news agency, TASS, although data from international flight tracking portals showed that both airports resumed normal operations at 6 a.m. local time.
Still quoted from Russian Telegram, speculation emerged that Ukrainian troops had deployed a type of drone that had never been seen before in the attack. It shows some similarities to the Iranian-made weapons that Moscow routinely uses in its attacks on Ukraine.
In fact, the Russian capital has been under frequent drone attacks since May, and Russian officials have blamed Ukraine for the attacks. Military analysts commented at the time that the initial strikes used locally made Ukrainian drones that could not carry a payload as heavy as the Iranian-made Shahed.
As of Sunday morning, Ukrainian officials had not acknowledged or commented on the drone attack on Russia.
For information, the day before Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital with more than 60 Iranian-made Shahed drones. At least five civilians were injured in the hours-long attack, which left several buildings damaged by falling drone debris, including a kindergarten. The injured victims included an 11-year-old child.
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