It showed video clips that were widely circulated across various platforms Social media platforms Exciting details of a large-scale military attack using suicide drones that targeted the Russian capital, Moscow, this morning. It is a violent air attack that Russian official media described as the most violent and dangerous of its kind in nearly two full years.
In an official and direct comment on these developments on the ground, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his country’s full and public adoption of these concentrated air attacks, as he explained that Ukrainian army forces, in close cooperation with military intelligence men, carried out a new, precise targeting operation that extended deep into the Russian capital.
Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the strikes succeeded in hitting vital oil installations for the second time in just one week, which led to the outbreak of fires and the escalation of the ongoing fires in Russia’s energy facilities. He considered directing these medium- and long-term strikes to represent the best and most effective response to Russia’s systematic and deliberate targeting of Ukrainian cities, towns, and infrastructure over the past period.
And it showed Stills The Kapotnya oil refinery, wholly owned by the giant Russian company Gazprom, was subjected to a direct and powerful air strike. The massive and devastating explosion resulted in the lid of one of the huge oil tanks flying into the sky due to the pressure of the explosion. This was immediately followed by the outbreak of a very huge fire and the rise of thick clouds of dark black smoke that covered the atmosphere of the residential and industrial area surrounding the refinery.
And appeared in Screenshots Ukrainian-made drones were separated during Russian air defense attempts to intercept them while they were on their direct path towards their strategic target. Despite these aircraft being exposed to intense fire and anti-missiles from various defense systems, these repeated attempts did not succeed in shooting them down before arriving, which prompted analysts specializing in the manufacture and tactics of drones to confirm that Ukrainian offensive drones are now flying over the airspace of the Russian capital with complete freedom, in light of the weak efficiency and ineffectiveness of Russian air defense systems in protecting sensitive installations.
Zelensky added in his speech to public opinion that the massive air attacks also included targeting vital sites belonging to the Russian army and oil logistical warehouses in the Rostov region and in other areas controlled by Russian forces, noting at the same time that Kiev’s international allies and foreign partners expressed great admiration for the accuracy and effectiveness of these specific attacks, while stressing that these special military operations will continue and expand their pace as long as the Russian leadership in the Kremlin insists on the continuation of the war and rejects just peaceful solutions.
On the Russian side, local authorities and official news agencies such as TASS and RIA Novosti confirmed that the Greater Moscow region was subjected to the largest air attack of its kind in two full years. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated that air defense systems destroyed and shot down more than one hundred and ninety drones as they approached the capital’s airspace. At the same time, the Russian official acknowledged that some drones had succeeded in penetrating the airspace and reaching directly the oil refinery, which required full alert for firefighting and civil defense teams. To put out the raging fires.
Sobyanin pointed out that shrapnel and debris from the explosive marches fell on the famous “Sadovod” shopping center, without recording any human casualties among civilians, while the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, announced that a woman was injured of varying severity in the Elektrostal area as a result of march debris falling on the roof of her house.
The widespread air attack caused complete paralysis and chaos in transport and communications, as the Russian authorities suspended all flights at Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky International Airports, and traffic stopped completely in large parts of the Moscow Ring Road and the streets of Kapotnya, Verkny Polya and Novoryazankoy, with Chagin Street completely closed to car and pedestrian traffic.
