{"id":121515,"date":"2023-11-26T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=121515"},"modified":"2023-11-26T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:09:26","slug":"ukraine-hits-back-and-pummels-russia-with-revenge-drone-mass-attack-on-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/ukraine-hits-back-and-pummels-russia-with-revenge-drone-mass-attack-on-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine hits back and pummels Russia with revenge drone mass attack on Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The attack on Moscow came just a day after Russia carried out similar strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, which saw scores of drones shot down by Ukrainian air defences.<\/p>\n

In response, overnight yesterday, the Russian capital came under a like-for-like bombardment of kamikaze drones. Three of Moscow\u2019s international airports – Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky – had to be closed, with flights suspended or cancelled.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s Putin-loyal mayor complained of a \u201cmass attack\u201d on the Russian capital. And Russian forces were forced to shoot down 11 drones overnight and another nine early yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

In Tula, one on the unmanned crafts hit a residential building as it crashed to the ground.<\/p>\n

A video showed the moment of the explosion.Three people, a man and two women, required medical help.<\/p>\n

Local residents were evacuated from the building. Later in the morning, another swarm of drones was reported in Tula, a region where close Putin crony and former bodyguard Alexei Dyumin is governor, who once famously saved the dictator from being savaged by a brown bear.<\/p>\n

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Loud explosions were reported over the city. “It flew right over us,\u201d said one local said. A major fire was also reported in central Moscow after the attacks blocking all traffic, according to state media reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe circumstances of the incident and information about the victims are being clarified,\u201d authorities said.Also in Moscow region, surrounding the capital, five drones were reportedly shot down in Naro-Fominsk, Odintsovo, Ramensky and Podolsk urban districts.<\/p>\n

In three cases there was damage to buildings on the ground. It was not immediately clear if any of the drones had hit strategic targets.<\/p>\n

More drones were downed in Kaluga, Bryansk and Smolensk regions as Ukraine responded to the onslaught on Kyiv a day earlier.<\/p>\n

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the main target was Moscow. \u201cA mass drone attack was attempted overnight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n