#Drone #attack draws #Moscow closer to #Ukraine ‘s front line
#MOSCOW (MNP) – The brazen #drone #attack targeting Moscow early on Tuesday, which #Russia has blamed on #Kyiv, provides the clearest #evidence yet that the seat of Russian power is no longer #sheltered from the war in #Ukraine.
Fifteen months into the war in Ukraine, it appears Moscow is now in the firing line.
Russia’s defence ministry accused Ukraine of carrying out a “terrorist attack” on its capital city on Tuesday morning; while also claiming that its air defences had foiled the attack by drones.
Five of the eight unmanned vehicles that took part in the raid were shot down, the ministry said, while three others were jammed and forced to veer off course. Other sources, however, put the number of drones at many times more, adding that not all had been intercepted.
Some local media and bloggers “reported that between 30 and 40 drones had targeted the capital”, said Huseyn Aliyev, a specialist in Russian and Ukrainian security at the University of Glasgow.
The contrasting reports make it difficult to assess the exact scale of the attack, but Russian hawks – including the head of the Wagner paramilitary group – were quick to blame the military brass for failing to protect the capital.
