Russian officials said drones attacked multiple Moscow buildings on Tuesday, causing minor damage and forcing some people to escape. At the same time, Russia unleashed another wave of flying bombs on Kyiv, killing one.

One pro-Kremlin television analyst stated roughly 25 uncrewed planes attacked Moscow, but no one claimed responsibility.
The event follows Russian drone and missile raids on Ukrainian cities this month and weeks after two drones exploded over the Kremlin, which Russia blamed on Ukraine. Kyiv denies culpability.

On Telegram, Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov stated several drones were shot down approaching Moscow. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported two medical emergencies and no major injuries.
The city’s south Profsoyuznaya Street residents were evacuated, according to RIA. The reports were unverified by Reuters.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian defense troops shot down around 20 drones during Russian air raids in Kyiv.

The strike used solely Shahid drones, according to Kyiv’s military administration.

“A massive attack!” Mayor Vitali Klitschko remarked on Telegram. “Do not leave shelters.”

Ukrainian officials reported that a Russian projectile’s debris ignited a high-rise apartment building, killing one and injuring four.

Kyiv’s military administration reported on Telegram that two top levels of the building were destroyed, and people may remain under the rubble.

Kyiv officials and Reuters witnesses photographed smoke and flames on the building’s top floors.

“The attack was massive, came from different directions, in several waves,” Kyiv’s military administration head Serhiy Popko told the Telegram.

Podil, Pecherskyi, and other capital neighborhoods were affected by debris. Moscow didn’t say how many drones it launched.

Russia has regularly bombarded the Ukrainian capital in May with drones and missiles, mostly at night, in an apparent attempt to demoralize Ukrainians after more than 15 months of war.

Russia’s 17th air attack on the capital this month followed two attacks on Monday, including a rare midday raid.

“These missile attacks of a fairly dense frequency are aimed specifically at exhausting both our air defence forces and our physical and moral strength,” said Ukraine’s southern military command spokesperson Natalya Gumenyuk.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy complimented U.S.-supplied Patriot anti-missile defenses for downing most of the drones and missiles fired on Sunday and Monday.

“When Patriots in the hands of Ukrainians ensure a 100% interception rate of any Russian missile, terror will be defeated,” Zelenskiy declared in his nightly video message on Monday.

The air raids come as Ukraine plans a counter-offensive using Western weapons to force Russian occupants out of territory taken since Moscow launched its “special military operation” in February 2022.

“With these constant attacks, the enemy seeks to keep the civilian population in deep psychological tension,” stated Kyiv’s military administration chief Serhiy Popko.

According to Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokeswoman for the Eastern Ukrainian Forces, Russian paratroops and motorized soldiers were replacing Wagner mercenaries in Bakhmut.

Moscow invaded Ukraine to “denazify” it and safeguard Russian speakers. Western critics call the invasion an imperialist land grab that murdered tens of thousands, displaced millions, and destroyed cities.

Russia has welcomed intervention from Brazil and China to restart peace talks with Kyiv.

Zelenskiy’s top assistant claimed Kyiv’s peace plan, which calls for Russian troop withdrawal, was the only option to stop the war.

“There cannot be a Brazilian peace plan, Chinese peace plan, or South African peace plan when you are talking about the war in Ukraine,” chief diplomatic adviser Ihor Zhovkva told Reuters.

Mykhailo Podolyak, another Zelenskiy adviser, tweeted that any post-war solution should include a 100-120 km demilitarized zone within Russia along the border.

The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said Russia would not negotiate while fighting the war.