A "terrorist" attack drone on Moscow

A drone was filmed being shot down and a plume of smoke rising over the Moscow skyline. Russia's defence ministry said “This morning, the Kyiv regime launched a terrorist attack with unmanned aerial vehicles on premises in the city of Moscow," .

Ukraine launched its biggest ever drone attack on Moscow on Tuesday 30 May but air defenses destroyed all eight of the drones, bringing the 15-month war in Ukraine to the heart of the Russian capital.

Drone attacks deep inside Russia have been intensify in recent weeks, with strikes on oil pipeline installations and even the Kremlin earlier this month that Moscow has blamed on.

Sergei Sobyanin Moscow Mayor said two people were injured, one of whom was hospitalized, in the early morning attack. Moscow's airports remain open. No deaths were reported. Residents in south-western Moscow said they heard loud bangs at around 02:00 to 03:00 GMT, followed by the smell of petrol.

A "terrorist" attack drone attack on Moscow

The drone was being shot down and a plume of smoke rising over the Moscow skyline.

Russia's defense ministry said “This morning, the Kyiv regime launched a terrorist attack with unmanned aerial vehicles on premises in the city of Moscow," ,added ,"Eight unmanned aerial vehicles were involved in the attack. All enemy drones were hit."

The defense ministry said  that special electronic counter-drone technology was used to divert three of the Ukrainian drones while five more were shot down, including by Pantsir missile systems which help defend Moscow.

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine on the attack. Kyiv denied that it was behind the drone raid on the Kremlin earlier this month, though The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence believes that Ukraine was behind the attack.

It was unclear how President Vladimir Putin will react to the attack on Moscow, which brings the war in Ukraine to the capital of the world's biggest nuclear power. So far Putin has been successful in keeping the war in Ukraine far from Moscow, where life has been continued relatively normally despite the biggest crisis in Russia's Ties with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Russia has began attacking the Ukrainian capital with swarms of cheaply produced loitering munitions often known as “kamikaze drones” last October and uses them extensively during its regular air strikes across Ukraine. Russian media said damage was done near Moscow's Leninsky Prospekt and close to Vnukovo Airport. Russian state television gave the attacks some coverage but it was not extensive.

More than 15 months into one of the deadliest wars in Europe since World War Two, there is little sign of peace and Moscow has repeatedly warned that the West is escalating the war by supplying Kyiv with so much weaponry. MOSCOW UNDER ATTACK

Putin has repeatedly shed the conflict in Ukraine as a struggle with what he says is an arrogant and aggressive West which is risking a global war by supporting Ukraine. until now, the war has been described by the Kremlin as a "special military operation".

Maxim IvanovRussian lawmaker said it was the most serious hit on Moscow since Nazi attacks during World War Two, and no citizen could now avoid what he called "the new reality". "You will either defeat the enemy as a single fist with our Motherland, or the indelible shame of cowardice, collaboration and betrayal will engulf your family," he said.

A number of drones were shot down and that there was minor damage due to the falling wreckage. Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, said on the Telegram channel that several drones were shot down on their approach to Moscow. Russia’s investigative committee said

Russia's defense ministry blamed Ukraine for what it called a "terrorist" attack.

The attack came just weeks after the Kremlin was hit in a drone strike that Russia blamed on Ukraine, and simultaneously with the latest wave of Russian airstrikes on Kyiv. Here is what we know so far: *

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