Ukraine-Russia war: AFP News Agency citing Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, reported that a night-time Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow damaged two office blocks. The facades of two city office towers were slightly damaged in the attack and no one was injured in the incident.
"The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that early this morning Ukraine attempted to Attack the Capital of Moscow with at least 3 “Kamikaze” Attack Drones, with 1 Drone being Shot Down by Air Defenses in the Odintsovo District to the Southwest of the City, while the other 2 Drones were “Suppressed” by Electronic-Warfare Systems causing them to Lose Control and Crash into a Non-Residential Complex," tweeted OSINTdefender.
Moscow blames Kyiv for a missile attack in southern Russia
Earlier on Friday Russian forces pounded a key village that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive in the country's southeast, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing a missile at a city in southern Russia that officials there said wounded 15 people.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, marked Ukraine's Statehood Day by reaffirming the country's sovereignty — a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who used his claim that Ukraine didn't exist as a nation to justify his invasion.
“Now, like more than a thousand years ago, our civilizational choice is unity with the world," Zelenskyy said in a speech outside St. Michael's Monastery in Kyiv.
“To be a power in world history. To have the right to its national history – of its people, its land, its state. And of our children – all future generations of the Ukrainian people. We will definitely win!” He also honored servicemen and handed out first passports to young citizens as part of ceremonies in the square. The holiday coincides with the observance that marks the beginning of the widespread adoption of Christianity in land that later became Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
The Russian Defence Ministry said it shot down a Ukrainian missile in the city of Taganrog, about 40 kilometers (about 24 miles ) east of the border with Ukraine, and local officials reported 15 people were injured.
Debris fell on the city, the ministry added, alleging the missile was part of a “terror attack” by Ukraine.
Rostov regional Gov. Vasily Golubev said on Telegram that another missile was intercepted by air defenses elsewhere in the region. He didn't provide any details.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Danilov blamed Russian air defense systems for the explosion in Taganrog.
(With agency inputs)
