China News Network, May 5 Comprehensive foreign media reported that on the morning of May 31, local time, many facilities in Moscow were attacked by drones, which is the first time that residential areas of the Russian capital have been attacked since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke out, calling it an "act of terrorism."
Since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis
For the first time, residential areas of the Russian capital were attacked
Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow, Russia, released a message that the city was attacked by drones that morning, a total of 2 people were slightly injured, and several buildings were slightly damaged.
On May 5, local time, in Moscow, Russia, an investigator inspected the damage after a drone hit an apartment building.
Information released by the Russian Ministry of Defense shows that the attack used 8 drones, but all were hit by Russian air defense systems and electronic station systems. Five of them were shot down by the Russian Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile system, and three were suppressed by the electronic station system and lost control. Unfortunately, the drone that lost control fell on several multi-storey residential buildings in the city of Moscow and the Moscow region.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on the same day that the attack by the Ukrainian authorities on facilities in the city of Moscow was a terrorist attack.
Podolyak, an adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, then said that the Ukrainian side was not directly related to the drone attack on Moscow that day.
NBC said that this was the first attack on residential areas of the Russian capital since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, which was "unprecedented for Moscow."
The United Nations condemns
Putin: Acts of terrorism!
U.N. Secretary-General spokesman Dujarric said at a briefing about drone attacks on Moscow that the United Nations condemns attacks on civilians and infrastructure.
"The United Nations condemns any attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure, wherever it occurs," Dujarric said. ”
Russian President Vladimir Putin called a drone attack on Moscow an "act of terrorism." He noted that attacks on civilian targets confirmed the methods used by Kiev.
Infographic: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, Putin said, "It was not we who started the war in 2014, it was the Kiev regime that started the war in the Donbass." The attack on civilian targets in Moscow is another proof of this. ”
He stressed that unlike the Ukrainian army, the Russian army only carries out precision strikes on military infrastructure, including "the Ukrainian military intelligence headquarters, which was attacked two or three days ago."
"It is known that the Kyiv regime has chosen a different path - the path of attempts to intimidate Russia, intimidate Russian citizens and attack residential buildings," Putin said. This is, of course, a clear sign of terrorist acts. He stressed that attempts to provoke a reaction from Russia and provoke the same retaliation are worrying and that Ukrainian citizens should understand this.