By AFP 30 July 2023 | 8:37 am A night-time Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow damaged two office blocks, the mayor of the Russian capital said early Sunday, adding that no one was injured. A view of a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 30, 2023. – Three Ukrainian drones were downed over Moscow early on July 30, 2023, Russia’s defence ministry said, in an attack that briefly shut an international airport. While one of the drones was shot down on the city’s outskirts, two others were “suppressed by electronic warfare” and smashed into an office complex. No one was injured. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) A night-time Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow damaged two office blocks, the mayor of the Russian capital said early Sunday, adding that no one was injured. “Ukrainian drones attacked tonight. Facades of two city office towers were slightly damaged. There are no victims or injured,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram. Moscow and its environs, lying about 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border, had been rarely targeted during the conflict in Ukraine until several drone attacks this year. The attack reported Sunday is the latest in a series of recent drone assaults — including on the Kremlin and Russian towns near the border with Ukraine that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv. Earlier this month, Russia said it had downed five Ukrainian drones that disrupted the functioning of Moscow’s Vnukovo international airport. The drone attacks on Moscow come several weeks into a Ukrainian counter-offensive to claw back territory captured by Moscow since large-scale hostilities erupted in February 2022. Moscow’s foreign ministry has said such attacks “would not be possible without the help provided to the Kyiv regime by the US and its NATO allies”. Latest 32 mins ago Art is now a big business, and Anthony Azekwoh knows that. The renowned writer and digital artist is one of the global frontrunners earning hundreds of thousands in American dollars from digital assets such as Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs). Having abandoned life as an engineer for his artistic passions, Azekwoh is known as a radical and… 42 mins ago France’s finance minister said during a visit to Beijing on Sunday that cutting all economic ties with China was “an illusion”, as some Western countries question their reliance on the Asian giant. 52 mins ago The death toll from a powerful explosion that levelled an unlicensed fireworks warehouse in southern Thailand rose to at least 10 on Sunday, the local governor said as police sought the owner on charges of negligence. 56 mins ago The Network of Advocates for Digital Reporting (NADIR) has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the nomination of renowned tech expert Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo as minister. The lawmaker, who represents the Akoko North East/Akoko North-West Federal Constituency of Ondo State, is among the first batch of 28 ministerial nominees whose names were read out by Senate… 1 hour ago Nouhaila Benzina became the first player to wear a hijab during a Women’s World Cup game when she sported the Muslim headscarf in Morocco’s match against South Korea on Sunday.
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