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According to a Russian state news outlet, Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport was momentarily blocked to traffic early on Sunday after the mayor of the city said Ukrainian drones had struck structures in the capital. Three Ukrainian drones were reportedly shot down over Moscow, according to the Russian defense ministry.
The city's mayor stated in the tweet on Sunday that the damage to two office tower facades was minimal. No one was hurt. According to Tass, planes were rerouted to other airports as Moscow's Vnukovo airport was shuttered.
Prior to multiple drone assaults this year, Moscow and its surroundings, which are located approximately 500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, had seldom ever been targeted during the crisis in Ukraine, according to news agency AFP.
The drone attack on Sunday is the most recent in a string of recent drone strikes that Moscow has attributed to Kyiv, including strikes on the Kremlin and Russian cities close to the Ukrainian border.
Two of the drones were "suppressed by electronic warfare" and crashed into an office building, while one was shot down on the outskirts of the city. Nobody was hurt.
It was referred to as an "attempted terrorist attack" by the defense ministry.
It claimed on Telegram that an attempted terrorist strike by the Kyiv regime using unmanned aerial vehicles against targets in the city of Moscow was stopped on the morning of July 30.
"Air defense systems over the territory of the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region destroyed one Ukrainian UAV in the air.
Two more drones were neutralized by electronic warfare and crashed on the grounds of a non-residential building complex in Moscow City after losing control.
To the west of the city lies a commercial development called Moscow City. The "facades of two city office towers were slightly damaged," the city mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram.
There were "no victims or injured," he continued.
The Vnukovo airport in the capital was reportedly "closed for departures and arrivals, flights are redirected to other airports," according to the state-run TASS news agency.
Operations looked to have stabilized in less than an hour.
