KYIV, Ukraine—Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks early Wednesday, officials said, with Kyiv apparently targeting Moscow again and the Kremlin’s forces launching another bombardment of Ukrainian grain storage depots in what have recently become signature tactics in the almost 18-month war. A three-hour nighttime Russian drone attack in Ukraine’s southern…
An investigator examines a damaged skyscraper in Moscow City business district after a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. Russia’s defense ministry and Moscow’s mayor said Ukrainian drones were downed in Moscow and the region around the capital early Wednesday. No casualties were reported.
Russia zeroed in on Odesa last month, crippling significant parts of the port city’s grain facilities, days after President Vladimir Putin broke off Russia’s participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. That wartime deal enabled Ukraine’s exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said one drone smashed into a building under construction in Moscow City, a prestigious business complex hit by drones twice before. Several windows were broken in two buildings nearby and emergency services responded to the scene.It blamed the attack on Ukraine and said two other drones were shot down by air defense systems in the Mozhaisk and Khimki areas of the Moscow region.
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