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CNN —Russia has foiled at least 20 Ukrainian drone attacks over the past day, including on the capital, Moscow, officials said Sunday, a day after it launched its largest drone attack against the Ukrainian capital. According to Russia’s Ministry of Defense, 11 drones were destroyed over the territories of Moscow, Tula, Kaluga and Bryansk oblasts over Saturday night, adding later on Sunday that nine more were also destroyed over the same regions. A municipal service worker sweeps up debris on the playground of a drone-damaged preschool in the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 25, 2023. Global Images Ukraine/Global Images Ukraine/Getty ImagesThe attacks follow Russia’s largest drone attack against Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv since the start of its full-scale invasion, according to local officials. A Telegram post from Ukraine’s Air Force said it had intercepted 71 Shahed drones across six regions of Ukraine, with the vast majority in Kyiv region.

Persons: Sergey Sobyanin, Alexey Dyumin, Denis Pushilin, ” Pushilin Organizations: CNN, Russia’s Ministry of Defense, Moscow, Donetsk People’s, DPR, Ukraine’s Air Force, Kyiv Locations: Russia, Ukrainian, Moscow, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk, Russian, Donetsk, Donetsk People’s Republic, Azov, a.m, Solomianskyi, Kyiv, Ukraine

☆ Russia mistakenly doxed its own spies and secret bases by uploading their addresses on a public city hall website: investigative outlet
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia accidentally exposed the locations of its secret bases and spy homes, per the Dossier Center. AdvertisementAdvertisementMoscow's city hall accidentally leaked the addresses of government safehouses, undercover facilities, and the homes of state operatives, the Dossier Center reported on Monday. When Insider checked the Moscow city hall website on Monday, the document was no longer available online. In one case, the document even included the apartment numbers of two homes used by spies in Moscow, the Dossier Center reported. Many of these locations have already been identified as Russian intelligence facilities by investigative outlets such as Bellingcat, the Dossier Center noted.

Persons: —, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Sergey Sobyanin Organizations: Service, Federal Protective Service, Foreign Intelligence Service, Federal Security Service, Kremlin Locations: Russia, Moscow's, Russian, Moscow, Leningrad, Primorsky, St, Petersburg, Bryansk

CNN —A drone attack caused an explosion near Russia’s military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don on Thursday, as Kyiv continues a campaign of strategic aerial strikes in Russian territory. Russian air defense systems separately intercepted a drone attack near Moscow, the capital’s mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in a post on Telegram on Thursday. “Tonight, in the Ramensky urban district, air defense forces thwarted a drone attack on Moscow. “There will be a just retribution for everything.”In addition to the attacks on Russian territory, Kyiv has continued to also hit Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine. Russian-appointed officials in occupied Zaporizhzhia say there was another Ukrainian drone attack on Enerhodar, the city adjacent to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, early on Thursday.

Persons: Vasily Golubev, Golubev, Wagner, Sergey Sobyanin, ” Sobyanin, OLGA MALTSEVA, Denys Shmyhal, “, Jens Stoltenberg, ”, Volodymyr Zelensky Organizations: CNN, Getty, NATO Locations: Rostov, Kyiv, Russia, Ukrainian, Moscow, AFP, Ukraine, Russian, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia

☆ Russias-Ukraine War: Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Cassandra Vinograd | Nicole Tung | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ukrainian drones again targeted the Moscow region early on Monday, Russian officials said. Two drones briefly suspended flights at two airports in the capital, amid an intensifying campaign apparently aimed at bringing the war home to Russia. But the regional governor, Andrey Vorobyov, said later that two people were injured when falling debris from a drone hit a cottage, Tass reported. On Friday, Russian officials said that a Ukrainian drone hit Moscow’s financial center and damaged a building. Ukraine’s drone attacks within Russia have caused relatively minor damage and few casualties, especially in comparison with Moscow’s deadly missile strikes and drone attacks in Ukraine.

Persons: Sergey Sobyanin, Andrey Vorobyov, Vladimir V, Putin Organizations: Russia’s Ministry of Defense Locations: Moscow, Russia, Domodedovo, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian

CNN —Russia temporarily shuttered all four major Moscow airports early on Friday morning following an alleged drone strike on the capital city, its civil aviation authority said. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said Friday that Russian air defenses shot down a drone over the capital city overnight. The incident on Friday was the third time in the past month that this district of Moscow has been struck by drone debris. “The Kiev regime launched another terrorist attack using a drone against facilities in Moscow and Moscow region on August 18 at 4:00 Moscow time,” the ministry said in a statement, using the Russian spelling of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Last month, Kyiv said Ukrainian forces carried out a drone strike in Moscow and warned more strikes were to come.

Persons: Sergey Sobyanin, “, Shamil Zhumatov, Mykhailo Fedorov, Volodymyr Zelensky, Rosaviatsiya Organizations: CNN, Russia, Moscow, Russian Defense Ministry, Reuters, Kyiv, Transformation Ministry, “ Army, Drones, Russian Association of Tour Locations: Moscow, Sheremetyevo, Zhukovsky, Expocentre, Ukraine, Kiev, Kyiv, Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, Russia, Reuters Ukraine, Crimea, Ukrainian, Nizhny Novgorod, St, Petersburg, Minsk, Belarus

☆ Video shows a fireball erupting next to Moscow's glitzy skyscrapers as the capital's finance district is struck by drone attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Footage shows a drone strike in Moscow causing a huge explosion in the capital's business district. The capital's mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, said on Sunday that two office buildings in Moscow were damaged by drone attacks, accusing Kyiv of carrying out the strikes. Russia's Ministry of Defense said Moscow's air defense systems destroyed one drone on Sunday, while jamming another two drones that lost control and crashed into a building. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referenced the drone attacks in his daily address on Sunday. Footage of the aftermath posted on Telegram and social media showed one of Moscow's skyscrapers clearly damaged from the strike.

Persons: Sergey Sobyanin, Sobyanin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Organizations: Service, Storyful, Street Journal, RT, Russia's Ministry of Defense, TASS, ASTRA, Kremlin, United Nations Locations: Moscow, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Ukraine, Kyiv, State

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had fired at least three drones at Moscow, the latest in a wave of attacks in Russia demonstrating that few places are off limits after more than 17 months of war. One drone was destroyed in Odintsovo, outside Moscow, the Defense Ministry said, adding that two others struck commercial buildings in the capital after being intercepted by Russian air defenses. Ukraine does not typically claim responsibility for attacks in Russia, in an effort to maintain a military advantage and an element of surprise. However, senior Ukrainian officials said last week that recent drone attacks on Moscow were orchestrated by Kyiv. A few hours after Sunday’s attack, a Ukrainian Air Force spokesman released a statement that neither accepted nor denied responsibility.

Persons: Moscow’s, Sergey Sobyanin Organizations: Russian Defense Ministry, Defense Ministry, Kyiv, Ukrainian Air Force Locations: Moscow, Russia, Odintsovo, Ukraine

☆ Russia Says 2 Drones Strike Buildings in Moscow in Latest Wave of Attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Andrés R. Martínez | More About Andrés R. Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces had fired at least three drones at Moscow on Sunday, the latest in a wave of attacks inside Russia demonstrating that few places are off limits after more than 17 months of war. One drone was destroyed in Odintsovo, outside Moscow, the Defense Ministry said, adding that the two others struck commercial buildings in the capital after being intercepted by Russian air defenses. Ukraine does not comment on attacks inside Russia that could be attributed to them, seeking to maintain secrecy and the element of surprise. Ukraine has also been accused of hitting military air bases deep inside Russia and oil facilities with drone attacks. They were followed by more at the end of that month in a high-end Moscow neighborhood.

Persons: Moscow’s, Sergey Sobyanin Organizations: Russian Defense Ministry, Defense Ministry Locations: Ukrainian, Moscow, Russia, Odintsovo, Ukraine

☆ Employees of a Moscow company were handed weapons as Wagner fighters approached the capital, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Moscow company handed employees weapons during the Wagner rebellion, a report said. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyA Moscow company handed employees weapons as fighters from the Wagner private army approached the Russian capital on Saturday, The Moscow Times reported. The outlet said that rich Muscovites fled the city on private planes, while other armed themselves to fight, as soldiers bore down on the capital seeking to oust Russian military leaders. After a televised address by Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he branded the mutineers traitors and vowed to defeat them, one state-owned company handed out guns to employees, the outlet reported. Russian military and security services put up hasty barriers and dug up roads as they prepared to defend the capital from the fighters on Saturday.

Persons: Wagner, —, Muscovites, Vladimir Putin, Sergey Sobyanin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Organizations: Fighters, Moscow, Kremlin, Service, Moscow Times, Moscow's, Reuters Locations: Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Belarus

☆ Moscow residents ordered to stay home from work on Monday as Wagner mercenaries march on the Russian capital
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Residents of Moscow have been ordered to stay home on Monday. Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said authorities are on "high alert" as Wagner force approach the capital. Sobyanin urged residents to stay home "as much as possible." The apparently bloodless capture of the city was followed by reports that Wagner forces are marching toward Moscow. Wagner forces then made it to the region of Lipetsk, according to the local governor, just a few hours' drive from the capital.

Persons: Sergey Sobyanin, Wagner, —, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Sobyanin, Prigozhin's Wagner, Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin — Organizations: Service, Google, Russian Locations: Moscow, Sobyanin, Rostov, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Ukraine, Russian

☆ Video shows Russian workers tearing up highways to block Prigozhin's advance on Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Videos show what appears to be Russian workers tearing up highways outside Moscow. Wagner Group fighters have been advancing on Moscow since early Saturday. Tensions between Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian military leaders have mounted for months. It's unclear who is operating the construction equipment seen in the images. Russian security forces set up traffic checkpoints with armed guards on Russia's M4 highway, which leads to Moscow, on Saturday, according to Reuters.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, —, Samuel Bendett, Putin, Don, Prigozhin, Sergei Shoigu, Prigozhin —, Sergey Sobyanin, Sobyanin Organizations: Wagner Group, Service, Center for Naval Analyses, Russian Telegram, Russian Defense, Reuters, Moscow Locations: Moscow, Lipetsk, Rostov, Ukraine, Russia

☆ Wagner boss says he will turn back to avoid bloodshed after coming within hours of Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Russian forces are led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a billionaire and former close ally of Putin. Prigozhin's defiant march toward Moscow was the culmination of a months-long feud with top Russian military leaders. Prigozhin had for years been a close ally of the Russian president, dubbed "Putin's chef" after growing wealthy from state catering contracts. With much of the Russian military bogged down in Ukraine, however, few security forces have been left to challenge Wagner directly. According to videos and photos shared on social media, Wagner forces were also in possession of advanced air defense equipment, limiting the Kremlin's ability to attack them from the sky.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin, —, Prigozhin, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin, Sergey Sobyanin, Sergei Shoigu Organizations: Service, Russian, Russian Defense, Rostov Locations: Moscow, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Rostov

☆ Prigozhin's Wagner mercenaries appear to be on the march towards Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's Wagner paramilitary forces appear to be headed toward the capital, Moscow. Photos and videos now appear to show Wagner forces and their armored vehicles in the region of Lipetsk, which is a roughly eight-hour drive from Rostov-on-Don — and less than six hours from Moscow. He later confirmed that Wagner forces were moving through the area, state media reported, and urged civilians to stay in their homes. The "march" began Friday after Prigozhin accused Russia's defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, of ordering an air strike on Wagner forces in Ukraine. He has repeatedly accused Shoigu and other military leaders of undermining Wagner forces in Ukraine.

Persons: Russia's Wagner, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, —, Yevgeny Prigozhin —, Don —, Igor Artamonov, Prigozhin, Russia's, Sergei Shoigu, Shoigu, Ramzan Kadyrov, Sergey Sobyanin, Igor Girkin Organizations: Service, New York Times, Russian, British Ministry of Defense Locations: Moscow, Russian, Rostov, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Ukraine, Russia, Vorenezh Oblast

☆ Moscow and other Russian cities are scaling back or canceling New Year parties to spend the money attacking Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's military is still struggling with a number of problems on the frontlines in Ukraine. As a result, some Russian cities have canceled or scaled down their New Year's celebrations. Moscow is still holding a New Year celebration — but it will not include fireworks, its mayor said. In Moscow, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said the capital would hold a toned-down celebration, forgoing the usual firework show and mass concert. Some Russian activists last week accused him of spending billions on Russia's military while many of them freeze back home, The Daily Beast reported.

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