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☆ Russia recognises first crew to use hypersonic missile in Ukraine, TASS reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, shows Kh-47 Kinzhal Russian hypersonic missile parts, shot down by a Ukrainian Air Defence unit amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine May 12, 2023. "The Su-34 aircraft used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile during the special military operation," TASS cited an unnamed military source as saying. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a "special military operation". Moscow has said very little so far about the Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile, but Ukraine's military Kyiv says Russia uses them frequently. TASS did not say when Russia used the Kinzhal missiles for the first time in Ukraine.

Persons: Oleksandr Ruvin, Valentyn, Vladimir Putin, Lidia Kelly, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Kyiv Scientific Research, Forensic, Ukrainian Air Defence, REUTERS, Russian TASS, TASS, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia, Moscow, Russian, Melbourne

☆ Russia says Ukraine launched drone attacks on Kursk region
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Sept 4 (Reuters) - Ukraine launched drone attacks on the Kursk region of Russia overnight from Sunday to Monday, with the Russian defence ministry saying its forces had shot down two drones after midnight on Monday. The drone attack on the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine to its west, began around 1 a.m. Monday (2200 GMT Sunday), the defence ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. This followed a report Sunday evening by the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, that debris from a downed drone sparked a fire at a non-residential building in the city of Kurchatov. Drone attacks on Russian targets, especially in Crimea - annexed by Moscow in 2014 - and in regions bordering Ukraine, have become almost a daily occurrence since two drones were destroyed over the Kremlin in early May. Ukraine rarely takes direct responsibility for such drone strikes but says destroying Russian military infrastructure helps a counteroffensive Kyiv began in June.

Persons: Starovoit, Russia's, Lidia Kelly, Diane Craft, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Reuters, Kremlin, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kursk, Russia, Kurchatov, Crimea, Moscow, Melbourne

☆ Ukraine says it retakes more ground as Zelenskiy visits front lines
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

She also reported unspecified "success" in the direction of the villages Novodanylivka and Novoprokopivka in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, but gave no details. Ukraine has now taken back about 47 square km of territory around Bakhmut since starting its counteroffensive in early June, Maliar wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Zelenskiy was shown presenting medals to soldiers at a number of sites and offering thanks to medics at a field hospital on the southern front. [1/4]Ukraine's President Zelenskiy awards a Ukrainian service member as he visits a position at a frontline, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine September 4, 2023. Maliar said last week that Ukrainian troops had broken through the first line of Russian defences, and Ukraine's military expects now to advance more rapidly.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Hanna Maliar, Maliar, Zelenskiy, Dmytro Kuleba, Yuliia Dysa, Timothy Heritage, Ron Popeski, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Russian, Deputy, Reuters, Presidential Press Service, REUTERS Acquire, Foreign, Russian Defence Ministry, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Bakhmut, Zaporizhzhia, Russia, Ukrainian, Donetsk, Azov, Donetsk region, Kyiv, Moscow

☆ Russia Recognises First Crew to Use Hypersonic Missile in Ukraine -TASS
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Sept. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

(Reuters) - The first Russian crew to use hypersonic, air-launched Kinzhal missiles during Moscow's military operation in Ukraine has been presented with state awards, the Russian TASS state news agency reported on Monday. "The Su-34 aircraft used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile during the special military operation," TASS cited an unnamed military source as saying. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a "special military operation". Moscow has said very little so far about the Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile, but Ukraine's military Kyiv says Russia uses them frequently. TASS did not say when Russia used the Kinzhal missiles for the first time in Ukraine.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Lidia Kelly, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Reuters, Russian TASS, TASS Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Kyiv, Moscow, Russian, Melbourne

☆ Russian defence ministry says it downed three drones near border as Ukrainian shelling kills 1
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Sept 2 (Reuters) - The Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday that it had brought down three Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region, while the regional governor said that one man had been killed in a Ukrainian rocket strike on a village close to the border. Separately, the governors of the nearby frontier regions of Bryansk and Kursk said a string of border villages had come under fire from Ukraine, and a woman had been wounded in Kursk region. Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory have picked up in recent weeks, with dozens of drones striking Russia at once on some days, reaching as far as the western city of Pskov, 400 miles (600 km) from Ukraine. Russian-installed authorities in the Moscow-controlled part of Ukraine's Kherson region also said on Saturday that Kyiv struck the village of Maslivka in a drone strike, wounding a civilian. Reporting by Felix Light Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Frances KerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Felix Light, Tomasz Janowski, Frances Kerry Organizations: Russian Defence Ministry, Kyiv, Thomson Locations: Belgorod, Ukrainian, Bryansk, Kursk, Ukraine, Kursk region, Russia, Pskov, Russian, Moscow, Ukraine's Kherson, Maslivka

☆ Russian Defence Ministry says boat destroyed trying to attack Crimea bridge
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 2 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry said early on Saturday that its forces had destroyed an unmanned Ukrainian boat being used in an attempt to attack the bridge linking the Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland. The bridge, completed in 2018, four years after Russia occupied and annexed the peninsula from Ukraine, has come under repeated attack in Moscow's 18-month-old full-scale invasion of its neighbour. "On 1st September at about 11.15 p.m. (2015 GMT), an attempt was undertaken by the Kyiv regime to launch a terrorist strike with a half-loaded unmanned boat," the ministry said on Telegram. It said the boat had been "spotted and destroyed in time off the Black Sea coast". Ukraine claimed responsibility for an attack in July on the bridge by what has been described as a sea drone.

Persons: Stringer, Ron Popeski, Leslie Adler Organizations: REUTERS, Russia's Defence Ministry, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Crimea, Crimean, Kerch, Russian, Russia, Ukraine, Moscow's, Kyiv

☆ Russia scrambles jets in response to US drones over Crimea -ministry
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Russia scrambled two fighter jets on Monday to prevent two U.S. drones from violating its border over the Black Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry said. A ministry statement on Telegram said the drones had been observed near Crimea and heading for the Russian border on an intelligence mission. "As a result of the actions of anti-aircraft forces on duty the intelligence U.S. drones altered the direction of their flight and left the area where they were conducting air intelligence," the ministry statement said. Reuters could not verify the ministry's account. Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Alison WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Alison Williams Organizations: Russian Defence Ministry, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, U.S, Crimea, Russian

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The United States does not encourage or enable attacks inside Russia, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said after Russian authorities said they downed drones that tried to attack Moscow early on Wednesday. Drone strikes deep inside Russia have increased since two unmanned aircraft were destroyed over the Kremlin in early May. The United States, which has supplied Ukraine with massive assistance in the form of weapons and other military equipment to combat the Russian invasion, has consistently said it does not support attacks inside Russia. One drone hit a building under construction in central Moscow early on Wednesday, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his channel on Telegram, a messaging app. Moscow airports suspended flights early on Wednesday, Russia's TASS news agency reported.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Kanishka Singh, Tom Hogue, Stephen Coates Organizations: U.S . State Department, State Department, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia's TASS, Defence Ministry, Thomson Locations: United States, Russia, U.S, Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Bryansk, Washington

There was no immediate official confirmation that Prigozhin, Russia's most powerful mercenary and a self-declared enemy of the Russian Defence Ministry, was physically on board. Reuters could not confirm that he was on the aircraft though a Telegram channel linked to Wagner pronounced him dead. Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves the headquarters of the Southern Military District amid the group's pullout from the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. Unconfirmed Russian media reports said that Dmitry Utkin, Prigozhin's right-hand man, had also been on board and that Prigozhin and his associates had attended a meeting with officials from the Russian Defence Ministry. An unverified video clip posted to social media showed a plane resembling a private jet falling out of the sky towards the earth.

Persons: Wagner, Prigozhin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin's, Putin, Joe Biden, Alexander Ermochenko, Sergei Shoigu, Valery Gerasimov, Dmitry Utkin, Andrew Osborn, Max Rodionov, Mark Trevelyan, Grant McCool Organizations: Russian Defence Ministry, Reuters, Wagner Group, Kremlin, Defence Ministry, Embraer, TASS, Southern Military, REUTERS, Russia's, General Staff, Thomson Locations: Moscow, MOSCOW, Russia, Africa, Tver, St . Petersburg, Kuzhenkino, Tver Region, Rostov, Don, St Petersburg, Ukraine, Belarus

☆ A Backfire bomber being blown apart deep inside Russia's territory is the latest in a string of glaring failures to protect its strategic bases
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Last weekend, an apparent drone strike destroyed a prized Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire bomber. The attack occurred far from the front lines of the war and may have been launched from inside Russia. The strike on a vulnerable Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire bomber is part of a growing list of Russian failures to protect its critical bases and vital aerial assets. If that's the case, it may speak to both Ukraine's expanding ability to threaten domestic Russian air bases and Russia's inability to protect them. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the aftermath of the Tu-22M3 attack, there's a question of how Russia might adapt.

Persons: — Engels, Samuel Bendett, they're, Bendett, ALEXANDER NEMENOV, It's, Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko Organizations: Service, Russian Defense Ministry, Aviation, Center for Naval Analyses, Russia, Russian Aerospace Forces, NATO, Russian Defence Ministry, Kremlin, Nazi, Getty, Internal Affairs, Mobility Artillery, Systems Locations: Russian, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, St . Petersburg, Saratov, Ryazan, Moscow, Novgorod Oblast, Russia's, Nazi Germany, AFP, Murmansk, Finland

☆ Russia scrambles jets to force reconnaissance drones off Crimea -defence ministry
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Aug 22 (Reuters) - Russia's air force scrambled two jets to force two drones to stop reconnaissance near the Crimean peninsula, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday. "On August 22, the flight of two unmanned aerial vehicles MQ-9 Reaper and TB2 Bayraktar carrying out aerial reconnaissance in the area of the Crimean Peninsula was recorded over the Black Sea by means of the airspace control of the Russian Aerospace Forces," the ministry said. According to the statement, Russia scrambled two jets forcing the drones "to change the direction of the flight and leave the areas of aerial reconnaissance". Reporting by Maxim Rodionov; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Bayraktar, Maxim Rodionov, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Russian Aerospace Forces, Thomson Locations: Crimean, Russia

☆ Two Ukrainian drones shot down over Moscow region, flights briefly disrupted - Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Stringer Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Russia shot down two Ukrainian drones over the Moscow region with no casualties and brought down a further two drones over the Bryansk region that borders Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. A Reuters reporter in the town of Krasnogorsk in the Moscow region, seat of the Moscow regional government, saw minor damage to tiling on a high-rise residential building and shattered glass exterior window panes in a few of its apartments. At least two people were injured a day earlier when parts of a Ukrainian drone destroyed by Russian air defences fell on a house in the Moscow region, the regional governor said. The Russian defence ministry said that nobody had been hurt in the latest attack. "Two drones were detected and destroyed by air defence systems over the territory of the Moscow region."

Persons: Stringer, GUR, Andriy Yusov, Andrew Osborn, Maria Tsvetkova, Jacqueline Wong, Michael Perry, Angus MacSwan Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Russian Defence Ministry, Reuters, Police, Kremlin, TASS, Russian, Thomson Locations: Krasnogorsk, Russia, Moscow, Bryansk, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Odintsovo, Chastsy, Russian, Kyiv, Moscow's, Kaluga, New York

☆ Ukrainian drone damages building in Moscow disrupting air traffic, Russia says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Summary Russian air defences destroy Ukrainian droneDrone smashes into building in central MoscowNo casualties reportedFour Russian airports briefly suspend flightsMOSCOW, Aug 18 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone smashed into a building in central Moscow on Friday after Russian air defences shot it down, disrupting air traffic at all the civilian airports of the Russian capital, Russian officials said. Reuters images showed workers and emergency workers inspecting a damaged roof of a non-residential building which the drone hit. "At about 4 am Moscow time, the Kyiv regime launched another terrorist attack using an unmanned aerial vehicle on objects located in Moscow and the Moscow region," the Russian defence ministry said. [1/5]Investigators work near a damaged roof following a reported Ukrainian drone shot down in Moscow, Russia, August 18, 2023. Drone air strikes deep inside Russia have increased since a drone was destroyed over the Kremlin in early May.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Shamil Zhumatov, Maria Tsvetkova, Lidia Kelly, Mrinmay Dey, Jacqueline Wong, Guy Faulconbridge Organizations: Reuters, Moscow, REUTERS, Rights, Kremlin, Civilian, New York Times, United, Cuban Missile Crisis, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russian, MOSCOW, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Russia, Sheremetyevo, Zhukovsky, Ukraine, United States, Kremlin

☆ Russian war ships thwart Ukraine's attack near Crimea -Russian military
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Aug 17 (Reuters) - Two Russian war ships repelled a Ukrainian attack with an unmanned boat near Crimea on Thursday, the Russian defence ministry said. The patrol ships, the Pytlivy and the Vasili Bykov, fired at the Ukrainian boat and destroyed it, the military said. Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vasili Bykov, Maria Tsvetkova, Chris Reese Organizations: Thomson Locations: Crimea

MOSCOW, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday released video footage showing an armed naval inspection unit boarding a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea on Sunday and questioning the captain about why the ship had not stopped when demanded to by a Russian warship. "Stop machine, stop machine," one of the armed Russians says as crew members put their hands on their heads and kneel before the Russian weapons. I am Russian naval officer - please don't shoot my group on video." The Russian officer then questions the captain through a crew translator about why the ship did not stop when asked to. "Thank you, you good day sir," the Russian officer says as he leaves.

Persons: Guy Faulconbridge, Robert Birsel Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Russia, Black, Russian, Palau, Turkey, Ukraine, Izmail

[1/2] Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu delivers a speech at XI Moscow conference on international security in the Moscow region, Russia, August 15, 2023. Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of war crimes and cast Moscow's invasion as an imperial-style land grab. "In the special military operation, the Russian army has debunked many myths about the superiority of Western military standards," Shoigu said in a rare public speech, according to a text supplied by his ministry. Shoigu said he would share details about the weaknesses of Western weapons and that none were invulnerable. In remarks aimed at China, Shoigu said the West was intentionally stoking the situation around Taiwan, comparing the situation to the Ukraine war.

Persons: Sergei Shoigu, Li Shangfu, Shoigu, Vladimir Putin's, Guy Faulconbridge, Conor Humphries Organizations: Russia's, XI Moscow, Russian Defence Ministry, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Cuban Missile Crisis, Russia, Reuters, British, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ukrainian, Odesa, China, Taiwan

Russia in July halted participation in the Black Sea grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export agricultural produce via the Black Sea and Moscow cautioned that it deemed all ships heading to Ukrainian waters to be potentially carrying weapons. "To forcibly stop the vessel, warning fire was opened from automatic weapons," the Russian defence ministry said. BLACK SEA AT WAR? Since Russia left the Black Sea grain deal, both Moscow and Kyiv have issued warnings and carried out attacks that have sent jitters through global commodity, oil and shipping markets. Ukraine also attacked a Russian oil tanker and a warship at its Novorossiysk naval base, next door to a major grain and oil port.

Persons: Vasily Bykov, Okan, Guy Faulconbridge, Nick Macfie Organizations: UN, Russian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, MOSCOW, Russian, Black, Ukraine, Moscow, Palau, Izmail, Bulgaria, Sulina, Turkey, Kyiv, Novorossiysk

☆ Russia to build up forces in west to counter NATO threat - Shoigu
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu chairs a meeting with the leadership of the Armed Forces in Moscow, Russia July 31, 2023. Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS/File PhotoAug 9 (Reuters) - Russia will build up forces at its western borders following Finland's accession to the U.S.-led NATO alliance, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told the governing board of the ministry on Wednesday. Shoigu called the entry of Finland into NATO and the future entry of Sweden "a serious destabilising factor". Shoigu said the number of NATO military units from outside the region stationed in eastern Europe had increased by two-and- a-half times since February last year and that they were now 30,000-strong in total. "These threats to Russia's military security require a timely and adequate response.

Persons: Sergei Shoigu, Shoigu, Kevin Liffey, Peter Graff Organizations: Russian, Armed Forces, Russian Defence Ministry, REUTERS, NATO, Defence Ministry, Russia, Russian Federation, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, U.S, Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Russian, Sweden, Leningrad, United States, America, Europe

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Two drones downed near Moscow; UN condemns strikes on Pokrovsk
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Pantsyr S-1 air defence missile system is seen atop the Russian Defence Ministry headquarters in Moscow on August 3, 2023. Two drones were shot down upon approaching Moscow overnight, Russian officials said, in the latest of a growing number of interceptions by the Russian capital's air defense systems. There were no damage or injuries, the Russian ministry of defense said. Ukraine has not officially claimed responsibility for drones heading to Moscow in recent weeks, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy late last month said war was "returning to Russia's territory." The unmanned aerial vehicles have led to damage to some buildings in the Russian capital and to a small number of reported injuries.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Denise Brown, Brown Organizations: Russian Defence Ministry, United Nations Locations: Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Donetsk

☆ Ukraine attacks Russian navy base near Novorossiysk
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Ukrainian sea drones attacked a Russian navy base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major hub for Russian exports, early on Friday and were destroyed by Russian warships, Russia's defence ministry said. The attack prompted the Novorossiysk port to temporarily halt all ship movement, according to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium which operates an oil terminal there. Russian social media users reported hearing explosions and gunfire near Novorossiysk on Friday morning. Russia has also reported an attack by Ukrainian sea drones on its warships which were escorting a civilian vessel. Russian air defences downed 10 Ukrainian drones over Crimea on Friday morning and suppressed three more with electronic countermeasures, TASS cited the Russian defence ministry as saying.

Persons: Tom Hogue, Kim Coghill, Michael Perry Organizations: Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Caspian Pipeline, Astra, TASS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Novorossiysk, Russia, Ukrainian, Crimea

☆ Russia says thwarts Ukrainian attack on its Black Sea navy ships - TASS
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Aug 1 (Reuters) - Three Ukrainian sea drones attacked two Russian Black Sea navy ships 340 km (211 miles) southwest of Sevastopol and were destroyed, TASS cited Russia's defence ministry as saying on Tuesday. Russia has said it would treat any ships leaving or entering Ukrainian ports as valid targets after the expiration of the Black Sea grain deal last month which allowed for exports of Ukrainian grains. The incident was the first clash of Ukrainian sea drones with the Russian navy in deep sea. Kyiv has previously used drones to target Russia's navy base in Crimea and the bridge that Russia has built to the peninsula. The Russian defence ministry said the Sergei Kotov and Vasily Bykov ships continued to perform their missions in the Black Sea.

Persons: Sergei Kotov, Vasily Bykov, Michael Perry Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukrainian, Russian, Sevastopol, Russia, Kyiv, Crimea

☆ 'Unusual' numbers of a massive Russian missile built to sink aircraft carriers are hammering a port city in southern Ukraine, intelligence says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Russia is launching "unusual" numbers of carrier killer missiles, among others, at urban areas in southern Ukraine. The Kh-22 missile is inaccurate when used this way and exceptionally dangerous. The Tupelov Tu-22M supersonic bomber can carry up to three Kh-22 missiles, an anti-ship weapon that Russia has been using against Ukraine's urban areas. An aerial view of the damaged building after Russian missile attacks in Odessa, Ukraine on July 25, 2023. In an aerial view, the Transfiguration Cathedral heavily damaged by Russian missile on July 23, 2023 in Odesa, Ukraine.

Persons: Ercin, Zelenskyy, Yan Dobronosov, Viacheslav Onyshchenko, Yuriy Ihnat Organizations: Service, NATO, AS, Russian Defence Ministry, UNESCO, Heritage, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Russian, Workers, Command, Onyx, The New York Times, Intelligence Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Odesa, Wall, Silicon, Odessa, Odessa ., Russian, Dnipro, Ukrainian, Kremenchuk

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Russia reports 'terrorist' drone attack on Moscow; more deadly strikes in Odesa
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Hannah Ward-Glenton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Russia blamed Ukraine for an attempted "terrorist attack" in Moscow Monday, which did not result in casualties. The Russian Defence Ministry posted on Telegram that two Ukraine drones were "suppressed and crashed" in the early hours of the morning and reported "no victims." The city was hit by a deadly Russian airstrike, which killed at least one person and left another 22 injured. Ukrainian member of Parliament Kira Rudik told Sky News that the night of the attacks was "probably the most vicious" since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The hostilities destroyed a grain depot and large parts of the Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral in the port city, according to Ukrainian officials.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Kira Rudik Organizations: Russian Defence, Sky News, Russia Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Kyiv, Odesa, Preobrazhenskyi

☆ Russia accuses Ukraine of 'terrorism' after drone strike near Moscow army HQ
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The drone attack, though not serious in terms of its human cost or damage, was the most high-profile of its kind since two drones reached the Kremlin in May. [1/5]A member of the security services investigates the damaged building following a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, July 24. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the RTVI TV channel Ukraine was guilty of what she called "an act of international terrorism." Citing emergency services, Russian state news agencies reported that drone fragments had been found near a building on Komsomolsky Avenue, which runs through Moscow. After May's drone attack on the Kremlin, U.S. drone experts concluded they might have been launched from inside Russia.

Persons: Nobody, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Maxim Shemetov, Mykhailo Fedorov, Fedorov, Maria Zakharova, Sergei Sobyanin, Andrew Osborn, Lidia Kelly, Simon Cameron, Moore, David Holmes, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Defence Ministry, Defence, Russian, Reuters, Kremlin, Russian Defence Ministry, Odesa, REUTERS, ACT, Foreign Ministry, Moscow, Thomson Locations: Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, MOSCOW, Crimea, Russian, Ukrainian, U.S, Melbourne

WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - The White House said it did not support Ukraine launching attacks inside Russia after two drones from Ukraine damaged buildings in Moscow earlier on Monday. "As a general matter we do not support attacks inside of Russia," White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in a press briefing. Russia vowed to take harsh retaliatory measures against Ukraine, calling the two drone strikes, including one close to the Defence Ministry's headquarters, a brazen act of terror. "And they can end it at any time by withdrawing forces from Ukraine instead of launching brutal attacks on civilians." A swarm of 17 drones also launched attacks overnight on Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

Persons: Karine Jean, Pierre, Jean, Pierre said, Jeff Mason, Kanishka Singh, Chris Reese, Susan Heavey Organizations: Ukraine, Defence, Russian Defence Ministry, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Moscow, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Russian, Crimea, Washington

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