Anti-aircraft missile complexes are installed on roof of Russia’s Defense Ministry and in Moscow’s downtown 

This was reported by Russian media and social media users.

OSINT analyst Michael Horowitz, having published the photo, claims that Pantsir-S1 appeared on the roof of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Other photos and videos on his Twitter were taken near Taganskaya metro station. On the roof, people in military uniform, with the help of a construction crane, raised what looks like Pantsir-S1.

Pro-war bloggers also wrote about this on Thursday, the Russian BBC service informs.

"In Moscow, Pantsir-S1 was installed on the roof of one of the buildings. Obviously, with an eye on the potential threat from various UAVs. In this matter, it is better to overwork than underwork," Boris Rozhin (Colonelcassad channel, 826,000 subscribers) wrote.

"Military Informant" (518 thousand subscribers), published the same photo as Horowitz, called the appearance of Pantsir-S1 at the main building of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow a precautionary measure: "Similar measures to place air defense systems within the capital would not be done just like that. Most likely, the military is afraid of a possible strike."

These are not the first such messages. Last week, Telegram channels published photos that allegedly showed that air defense equipment appeared in the area of Losiny Ostrov and in the area of Timiryazev Academy, and pro-war bloggers were alarmed by speculations about a possible Ukrainian attack on Moscow.

Last year, during the war against Ukraine, Russian authorities demonstratively prepared shelters from shelling, and on the morning of December 31, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that on New Year's Eve, more than 1,800 air and missile defense servicemen would guard the skies over Moscow.

Yuriy Ihnat, the spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, ridiculed the installation of the Pantsir-S1 in Moscow.

"It's clear that normal countries install modular installations that are capable of automatically shooting down aerial targets. But Russians directly put vehicles on the roofs of buildings with huge cranes. Well, what's to be surprised about, there's no panic," Ihnat said.

Military expert Roman Svitan recommended that residents of Moscow’s downtown exercise caution: air defense systems with a small radius of action on the roofs, during their operation, fragments of missiles will fall on the heads of people located nearby.

Self-propelled anti-craft missile and artillery system Pantsir-S1 is intended for air defense of small-scale military units, including mobile and administrative-industrial facilities and areas from aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles and high-precision weapons, as well as for strengthening air defense groups when repelling massive strikes air attack.