Ukraine launched this Thursday his greatest attack with drones against Moscow of the last two yearswhich caused at least 17 injuredseveral fires in the Russian capital and its surroundings and disrupted the main airportscon hundreds of delayed flights. Among the injured are three minorsaccording to official data. In addition, several drones reached a important refinery Moscow, for second time this week. The attack on the refinery is a “response fully justified to the Russian attacks against our cities,” declared the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on his social networks.
The offensive coincides with the meeting that the president Vladimir Putin holds with Southeast Asian leaders in the city of Kazan, about 700 kilometers east of the Russian capital. The president did not mention some to the attack in his initial intervention. It is, furthermore, the second time in this month that kyiv launches an attack of these characteristics during a international event organized in Russia. At the beginning of June it hit the Saint Petersburg area, coinciding with an important economic forum.
Damage on the periphery
All los airports from the region of Moscow have been forced to close y cancel or postpone more than 520 flights. At the Sheremetyevo airport alone, they canceled more than 110 flights and postponed about 150. The airline Aeroflot asked passengers not to go to the airports if their flights were canceled to avoid congestion at the facility until further notice from the air authorities.
For their part, the regional authorities also reported 60 drones shot down in the Bryansk region. Others 60 were killed in southern Rostov, where a person died and others of the they turned out wounds in the city of Gukovo. another one passed away in Belgorod, a region bordering Ukraine. A drone crashed against a building apartments in the Zhukovsky area. The remains of another device caused a fire in a shopping center near the capital, added the regional governor, Andrei Vorobyov. He Ministry of Defense claimed to have intercepted a total of 555 drones Ukrainians of the ala fija in the regions of Astraján, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Vladimir, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oriol, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Rostov, Ryazan and the region of Moscow.
“If Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn”
“Of course we don’t want Ukraine to burn because of the enemy, but If Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn“Zelensky said from Brussels, in a voice message sent to the WhatsApp group of journalists who cover Ukrainian news and in which he again offer Russian President Vladimir Putin to declare a immediate ceasefire and sit down negotiate he final of the guerra. The Ukrainian president added that it is necessary let the Russian people feel the consequences of the war that Putin is carrying out against Ukraine, and asked increase the pressure towards the Kremlin both by Europe and the US and by the own russiansto whom Zelensky has not directly appealed during most of the conflict.
The leader of kyiv is in Brusselswhere he will participate this Thursday in the meeting of the countries that militarily support Ukraine, known as Ramstein after the name of the American base on German territory where the coalition began to meet. Zelensky said in his voice message that he hopes to receive more financial contributions of its partners to the PURL program to continue buying weapons in USAand especially media of anti-aircraft defense to deal especially with Russian ballistic missiles. In addition, Zelensky stated that he hopes that during the day representatives of the German military industry will speak with Ukrainian specialists about how to take the first step towards manufacturing by one European antiballistic system own.
