Ukraine launched on Tuesday his biggest drone attack against Moscow, killing at least two Workers in a meat warehouse, hurting another 18 and causing a brief closure in the four airports of the Russian capital, Russian officials said.
A total of 337 drones were shot down on Russia, including 91 on the Moscow region and 126 On the Kursk region, where the Ukrainian forces have been withdrawing, said the Ministry of Defense.
The attack of dawn occurred while US officials met with a Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia to seek the end of a three -year war and while the Russian forces tried to surround thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in the Russian Western region of Kursk.
kyiv has suffered repeated mass attacks from Russia during the war and, he said, on Tuesday he was the target of a ballistic missile and 126 drones. He has tried to counterative his neighbor much bigger with repeated drones attacks against oil refineries, airfields and even early alert radar stations.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said that Tuesday was the biggest attack with unmanned planes Ukrainians against the city, which together with the surrounding region have a population of at least 21 million and is one of the largest metropolitan areas in Europe.
A high Russian legislator suggested that Russia should retaliate for Tuesday’s attack by attacking Ukraine with the hypersonic missile “Orshnik” that Moscow shot at Ukraine last November after the United States and the United Kingdom allowed kyiv to attack Russia more deeply with Western missiles.
Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, Head of the Parliament Defense Commission and former Deputy Minister Defense, he said that the decision of this type of measures depends on President Vladimir Putin. “But I think it would be useful, and not only for one“He said.
Mislatorg, one of Russia’s greatest meat producers, said two employees died from the fall of rubble.
Another 18 people resulted Wounds, including three children, since the houses were also reached, Russian officials said.
The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, published a photo of an apartment destroyed with shattered windows. But there were no panic signs: the passengers returned to work normally.
The Aviation control agency of Russia said the flights were suspended in the four Moscow airports after the attacks, although they were later reopened. The flights were diverted to other cities.
Although the US president, Donald Trump, says he wants to achieve peace in Ukraine, the war is heating On the battlefield with an important Russian spring offensive in Kursk and a series of attacks with Ukrainian -manned planes inside Russia.
Russia has developed innumerable “electronic umbrellas on Moscow and its key facilities, with additional advanced internal layers about strategic buildings and a complex network of air defenses to tear down drones before they reach the Kremlin in the heart of the capital.
The war, the biggest In Europe since World War II, he has combined the war of trenches and artillery with the great innovation of drones.
Both Moscow and kyiv have sought to buy and develop new drones, display them in ways innovative and look for new ways to destroy them, from farmers’ shotguns to electronic interference.
Both parties have converted Cheap commercial drones in lethal weapons while increasing their own production.
The soldiers have reported a visceral fear of drones and both sides have used macabre images of fatal attacks in their propaganda, in which soldiers shattered in bathrooms are shown or fleeing vehicles on fire.
Putin, who has tried to isolate Moscow from war, has described “terrorism” Ukrainian attacks on civil infrastructure, such as nuclear power plants, and has promised an answer.
Moscow, By far the richest city of Russia, it has experienced a boom during the war, driven by the greatest waste of defense expenses since the Cold War.
