Residents and employees wailed as explosions tore apart several floors of a major skyscraper in the centre of Moscow today – in an attack which Russian officials blamed on Ukraine
Drones attacked Moscow elite office and residential skyscraper district early today causing damage to at least two buildings.
Screams were heard as explosions ripped apart the several floors of a major building. The suspected Ukrainian attack inflicted the kind of terror on Moscow that Vladimir Putin’s armed forces have imposed on Kyiv and other Ukrainians cities during the war.
The first of two drones penetrating the Russian capital’s much-vaunted air defences struck at 3:20am. It hit the 50-storey IQ Quarter Tower, part of a business district called Moscow City that also includes elite residential apartments and penthouses.
A second drone struck at the business centre Oko-2 at 4:10am. Footage showed the impact of one of the drones. The Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the facades of two buildings were “slightly damaged” but the strikes appeared more serious.