No casualties reported after air defences destroyed drone, which fell on building in Expo Center complex, say officials
A Ukrainian drone has smashed into a building in central Moscow after Russian air defences shot it down, disrupting air traffic at all the civilian airports of the Russian capital, Russian officials have said.
A Reuters witness who was in the area in the early hours of Friday described hearing “a powerful explosion”. Reuters images showed workers and emergency workers inspecting a damaged roof of a non-residential building. The Russian defence ministry and the Moscow mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said there were no casualties after air defences destroyed a drone, which then fell on a non-residential building of Moscow’s Expo Center complex.
The Expo Center is a large spread of exhibition pavilions and multipurpose halls, less than 5km away from the Kremlin. “At about 4am 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.Air traffic was suspended briefly at four major airports around the capital – Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky – though later they reopened.
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