Russia: Moscow wakes up to kamikaze drone strike near major airport | World News

Russia woke up to yet another kamikaze drone strike on Moscow in the early hours of this morning.

Air defences shot down two armed drones headed for the capital, one close to the major international airport Domodedovo.

The second was near the Minsk highway, which connects the city to allied Belarus.

CCTV videos timestamped at 2.38am and then again at 2.56am show what appear to be thunderous explosions in the sky above Moscow.

‘There was an attempt to fly over the city with two combat drones,’ mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.

‘At the moment, there is no information about casualties at the crash site of the wreckage.’

Such attacks, which the Kremlin continues to blame on Russia, are becoming more frequent in Moscow and leading to concern from residents.

Russia’s defence ministry admitted the two incursions 16 minutes apart, saying ta ‘terrorist attack’ had been ‘thwarted’.

‘An attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack with unmanned aerial vehicles was prevented over the territory of the Moscow region,’ said the ministry.

‘Two UAVs were destroyed by air defences.’

This comes after a drone strike damaged two floors of a Moscow high-rise where some Russian ministries were located on July 30.

After the attack Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that ‘war’ was coming to Russia, with the country’s ‘symbolic centres and military bases’ now becoming targets.

Another drone on August 1 struck the 21st floor of the same building, known as the ‘Moscow City’.

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