Russian authorities accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack on Moscow early Monday that saw one of the aircraft fall near the Defence Ministry's main headquarters and striking Crimea, while the Russian military unleashed new strikes on port infrastructure in southern Ukraine.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said there were no casualties when the drones struck two nonresidential buildings. The Defence Ministry claimed that the military jammed both attacking drones, forcing them to crash.Russian media reported that one of the drones fell on the Komsomolsky highway near Moscow's center, shattering shop windows and damaged the roof of a house just about 200 meters away from the towering riverside Defence Ministry building.
Ukrainian authorities didn't immediately claim responsibility for the strike, which was the second drone attack on the Russian capital this month. Russian authorities said that another Ukrainian drone attack early Monday struck an ammunition depot in northern Crimea and forced a halt in traffic on a major highway and a railway crossing the Black Sea peninsula that was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014. Railway traffic was restored several hours later.
Ukrainska Pravda reported that the drone attack on Moscow was a special operation by Ukrainian military intelligence. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum via video link over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the bridge a legitimate target for Ukraine, noting that Russia has used it to ferry military supplies and it must be "neutralized."
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