In Moscow, drone strikes high-rise building 6 kilometers from Kremlin

In Moscow, drone strikes high-rise building 6 kilometers from Kremlin

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Sergey Sobyanin, mayor of the Russian capital Moscow, stated that a drone crashed into a high-rise building on the night of May 4.

According to Ukrinform, the Russian service of the BBC reported this.

“According to preliminary data, a drone crashed into a building on Mosfilmovskaya Street,” Sobyanin wrote on his Telegram channel.

He said there were no casualties.

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Russian social media reported that the drone crashed into a high-rise building, knocking out the walls of three rooms on the 36th floor.

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Citing eyewitnesses, the Telegram channel reports that part of the facade fell onto a car parked below the building.

According to an analysis by the ASTRA Telegram channel, the distance from the Kremlin to the building in Moscow damaged by the drone is about 6 km.

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