Drone attack on Moscow: Russian ministries in affected building

This was stated by the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin.

“Ukrainian drones attacked last night. The facades of two office towers in the city were slightly damaged, but no one was hurt,” he stated. 

However, emergency services reported that one person, a guard at the Oko-2 tower, was injured during the drone attack.

The Russian security forces also said that they shot down two drones in the Moscow suburbs, which might have been involved in the attack on the capital.

Moscow-City business center targeted

According to the Russian publication TASS, there was an explosion in the IQ-quarter building in the Moscow-City business center. The Russian security forces also said that they shot down two drones in the Moscow suburbs, which might have been involved in the attack on the capital.

The 50-story IQ-quarter building had its windows broken on the fifth and sixth floors. People were evacuated from the Moscow-City complex. In the Oko-2 tower, glass was broken from the first to the fourth floor.

As a result of the incident, flights in the airspace of Moscow and the Moscow region were prohibited. The Vnukovo airport in the capital was closed for departures and arrivals, but it was later reopened.

Russian Radio Svboda noted that in the Moscow-City buildings the offices of several Russian ministries are located.

In particular, we are talking about the offices of the Economy Ministry, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Digital Development, Federal Agency for Tourism, Federal Technical Regulation and Metrology Agency, and Federal Agency for State Property. According to eyewitnesses, after the drone attack, official documents, probably belonging to the Ministry of Digital Development, flew down the street.

Images of the attack are being shared on social networks.

Russian MoD reaction

The Russian Ministry of Defense reacted to the situation, claiming that they stopped an attempt of the “Kyiv regime” drone attack in Moscow on the morning of July 30. 

They said they destroyed one Ukrainian UAV in the air over the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region with air defense. 

Two more drones were allegedly neutralized with radio-electronic warfare and crashed on the territory of non-residential buildings in Moscow City after losing control.

Drone attacks on Moscow

On the night of July 24, there were explosions in different parts of Moscow. Reports from Russian media and Telegram channels mentioned damage to a building near the Russian Ministry of Defense and a business center.

According to the Mash Telegram channel, a building on Komsomolsky Prospekt, not far from the Ministry of Defense, had broken glass and drone fragments were found nearby. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin later confirmed this.

The emergency services, as reported by TASS, found drone fragments on Komsomolsky Prospekt and said another drone hit a high-rise building on Likhachova Street.

Traffic on Komsomolsky Prospekt from the city center to the region and along Likhachova Street was blocked, according to the Department of Transport.

Mayor Sobyanin stated that two UAVs were allegedly involved in the attack. The Russian Ministry of Defense later said they stopped an attempted attack by Ukrainian drones, and no one was harmed during the incident.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre attributed the drone attack in Moscow to the ongoing war that Russia started and could stop anytime.

Additionally, the Moscow authorities complained of another UAV attack on July 27-28, accusing Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that their air defense destroyed the UAV, and there were no injuries or damages.