Russian authorities said the structure of the building was not damaged after the attack, although many windows were destroyed. Photo: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters
A Moscow skyscraper housing government ministries was hit by a second drone attack in three days, according to Russian authorities. building, has not caused accidents or structural damage.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said he hit the same tower that was damaged by shelling on Sunday.
“Several drones were shot down by air defense systems when they tried to fly to Moscow. One flew into the same tower in the city as last time,” he said.
Sobyanin added that the facade on the 21st floor was damaged as a result of the shelling. Later, Russian media reported that 150 meters of glass had been broken.
The IQ quarter, located 7.2 km from the Kremlin, houses a number of government institutions, including the headquarters of the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
It looks like the drone attack targeted a specific floor of the skyscraper. Photo: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters
The drone crashed into a building in Moscow's financial district after being intercepted electronically, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Two more drones were shot down by air defenses over the region.
Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow suspended flights due to reports of attacks, but has since reopened.
The Kremlin blamed Ukraine for the launch “terrorist attack” against Russia.
Advisor to the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that Moscow “is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war, which, in turn, will soon move to the territory of the “authors of the war” in order to collect all their debts” . without confirmation or refutation of Kyiv's involvement in the terrorist attack.
Comparison to the 9/11 attack
The Russian Ministry of Defense compared the incident to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.
A Ministry spokesman said, “Let's look at another example: the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. This led to a huge number of victims, but the methods remained the same.
“The Moscow city district is a civilian facility, on which only offices and a business center are located … now we are seeing the same picture, it seems to be repeating itself '.
Emergency services who inspected the site concluded that the building's “structural supports” remained intact and were not damaged by the drone.
In contrast, planes that crashed into the twin towers in September 2001 destroyed both buildings and killed almost 3000 people. .
The Gray Zone, a Russian Telegram channel with more than half a million subscribers, cast doubt on the Kremlin's claim that the crash was caused by an electronic interception of a drone.
It said: “No one raises questions that for the second time successively jamming the signal… they crash into the same high-rise building.”
On Tuesday, Russia said separately that it had repelled a maritime drone attack from Ukraine on two warships of its Black Sea Fleet, “Sergei Kotov” and “Vasily Bykov”.
It also claimed that Ukraine targeted civilian vessels escorted by the Russian fleet along the Bosphorus, although this was rejected by adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky.
Britain previously said there was a “real possibility” that Moscow could use the Sergei Kotov to blockade Ukrainian ports after it was seen patrolling the shipping route between the Bosphorus and the port of Odessa.< /p>
Last week, Russian authorities said Ukraine targeted the corvette with drones, but said it destroyed them before they could cause any damage.
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