Video The attack on the Moscow buildings closed traffic on at least two large avenues, according to state media.
Credit Credit... Reuters Smoke was rising from the top floors of a high-rise building in a complex for Leroy Merlin, a French home improvement store.
Russia has fired missiles and drones at cities across Ukraine nearly every day while Russian cities, including Moscow, have been spared the violence of the war.
Then on May 31, the Russian defense ministry said at least eight drones had targeted the capital and surrounding region.
Ukraine has started to publicly take credit for attacks in Crimea, the peninsula that Russia illegally annexed in 2014, arguing that the attacks are happening inside Ukrainian territory.
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