“Moscow is afraid of drones over Red Square for Victory Day”

A Ukrainian drone crashed into a luxury apartment block in Moscow in the early morning hours of May 4.

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There were no casualties, but visible damage was caused to the facade of the building.

It was the third day in a row that the Russian capital was attacked by drones, a few days before the Red Square On May 9, a traditional military parade will be held on the occasion of the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Kremlin said earlier that the parade will be smaller this year due to, as they said, the “terrorist threat” from Ukraine.

A video, the authenticity of which has not yet been confirmed, is circulating on social networks, showing firefighters entering a badly damaged apartment in the affected Moscow solitaire, covered in dust and rubble, with broken windows.

In another video, the remains of the drone can be seen scattered on the street in front of the solitaire.

Two more drones were intercepted, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.

Flights at Vnukovo and Domodedovo international airports were suspended during the night.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that a total of 117 aircraft were intercepted over several Russian regions between Sunday and Monday.

Of that number, 60 targeted the St. Petersburg region, which regional governor Alexander Drozhenko called a “massive” attack.

The affected apartment building is in a luxury neighborhood in the southwest of Moscow, less than 10 kilometers from the Kremlin and Red Square, where a traditional military parade will be held on May 9.

Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian drones they reached Moscow several times.

Due to the danger of drones, airports on the outskirts of the Russian capital are almost regularly closed and disrupt air traffic.

Much of Moscow is protected by the Pancir-S surface-to-air missile system, and successful attacks so close to the center are relatively rare.

Expressing nervousness ahead of the May 9 celebration, The Kremlin announced last week that due to the “terrorist threat” from Ukraine reduce the size of the usually large military parades on Red Square.

For the first time since 2007, there will be no armored vehicles or rocket systems in the parade.

Several local phone operators have announced that mobile internet will be restricted in Moscow for most of the week for “security reasons”, Russian media reported on May 4.

The Kremlin fears that “drones will fly over Red Square. This is proof… We have to keep up the pressure,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Since the start of the war, Ukraine has developed an arsenal of long-range drones capable of hitting targets hundreds of kilometers from its borders.

Such drones are now almost regularly attacking energy infrastructure and refineries across Russia in order to reduce Russian oil and gas production, and therefore revenues.

Zelensky said on May 3 that three Russian oil tankers, a cruise missile-carrying warship and a patrol boat were hit in separate attacks on two Russian ports.

Affected tankers are part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” which is used to avoid Western sanctions imposed due to the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian president said.

Russia continues daily deadly airstrikes on Ukrainian cities.

Four people were killed and 18 wounded in a rocket attack near Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, near the border with Russia, it was reported from Kiev.

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