{"id":271431,"date":"2023-07-24T07:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T07:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271431"},"modified":"2023-07-25T06:21:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:21:25","slug":"two-drones-downed-over-moscow-says-russian-defence-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271431","title":{"rendered":"Two drones downed over Moscow, says Russian defence ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFP \u2013 July 24, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russia said it had neutralised two Ukrainian drones over Moscow in the early hours of Monday, with one crashing close to the defence ministry in the city centre.<\/p>\n

Officials said the drones hit non-residential buildings in the capital and that there were no casualties. The attack came one day after Kyiv vowed to \u201cretaliate\u201d for a Russian missile attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Kyiv regime attempt to carry out a terrorist act using two drones on objects on the territory of the city of Moscow was stopped,\u201d Russia\u2019s defence ministry said. \u201cTwo Ukrainian drones were suppressed and crashed. There are no casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tass news agency reported one drone crashed in Komsomolsky Prospekt, near the defence ministry, while another hit a business centre on Likhacheva Street by one of Moscow\u2019s main ring roads.<\/p>\n

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the drone strikes occurred at around 4am local time. He said emergency services were working at the scene and also reported no casualties.<\/p>\n

The RIA Novosti news agency posted a video of the business centre, with some damage visible to the top of the tall building. The road around it was closed.<\/p>\n

Moscow and its environs lie about 500km (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border but have been hit by several drone attacks this year, with one even hitting the Kremlin in May.<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Russia said it had downed five Ukrainian drones that disrupted the functioning of Moscow\u2019s Vnukovo international airport.<\/p>\n

Russian forces have pounded the Ukrainian port city of Odesa since Moscow quit a deal allowing Ukrainian grain to be exported through the Black Sea last week. The latest strike on the city on Sunday killed two people and severely damaged a historic cathedral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clergymen rescued icons from rubble inside the badly damaged Transfiguration cathedral, which was demolished under Stalin in 1936 and rebuilt in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian government condemned the cathedral strike as a war crime, saying it had been \u201cdestroyed twice: by Stalin and Putin\u201d.<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed retaliation: \u201cThey will definitely feel this,\u201d he said. \u201cWe cannot allow people around the world to get used to terrorist attacks,\u201d Zelensky added in his evening speech late on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe target of all these missiles is not just cities, villages or people. Their target is humanity and the foundations of our entire European culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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