For the fifth time in three months, Moscow has once again been targeted by drones. In what is fast becoming a regular occurrence, the Russian ministry of defence reported that two drones attacked the city in the early hours of this morning.
Despite the ministry’s claims to have intercepted and jammed the drones, they were still able to inflict damage on two buildings in the south west of the city. According to the government news agency TASS, one of the drones hit a non-residential building on Komsomolsky Prospekt, a mere two miles from the Kremlin and just over the river from Moscow’s famous Gorky Park.
This isn’t the largest drone attack Moscow has encountered, and it certainly won’t be the last
The building damaged by the drone is also a stone’s throw from the main building of the ministry of defence and just over the road from the Alexander Nevsky military hospital. According to Bellingcat’s Christo
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