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Pictures show Moscow after biggest Ukraine drone attack in three years

Pictures show Moscow after biggest Ukraine drone attack in three years

Yahoo11-03-2025

Ukraine launched what is thought to be its largest drone attack on Moscow since the war with Russia began.
It fired 91 drones on the Russian capital, with officials there saying at least two people have been killed, just as crucial peace talks got underway in Saudi Arabia between Ukraine and the US.
The operation was part of a wider strike on Russia, with 337 Ukrainian drones launched, including 126 over the Kursk region, where Ukraine's troops have been pulling back.
The drone attacks on Moscow sparked fires, closed airports and forced dozens of flights to be diverted.
Cars were burnt out, apartment buildings were damaged and there was debris on the streets. Russian officials said a 38-year-old guard working in a car park and a 50-year-old man had been killed in the Moscow drone attack.
On Tuesday morning, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defences were still repelling attacks on the city.
"The most massive attack of enemy UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) on Moscow has been repelled," he said in a post on Telegram.
Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said some residents were forced to evacuate a multi-storey building in the Ramenskoye district.
The Kremlin accused Ukraine of targeting residential apartment blocks in the attack on Moscow.
It said the attack had killed at least two workers at a meat warehouse and injured 18 others.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "All (defensive) measures and actions were carried out in advance, in good time. And this allows for the protection of Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as many other regions."
Flights at all four of Moscow's airports were suspended as a result of the attacks, while two other airports in the Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod regions east of Moscow were also closed.
Russia has a series of electronic "umbrellas" over Moscow and its key installations, along with a complex web of air defences to shoot down drones before they reach the Kremlin.
While repelling Russian drone attacks, Ukraine has tried to strike back with its own, targeting oil refineries and airfields on Russian soil.
The drone attack took place as Ukrainian officials met an American team in Saudi Arabia in an effort to bring the three-year-long war to an end.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is hopeful the talks in Jeddah will revive ties with the US following his disastrous meeting with US president Donald Trump in the White House last month.
Zelensky has suggested an initial truce with Russia in the air and at sea, and said ahead of the talks: "We hope for practical outcomes. Ukraine's position in these talks will be fully constructive."
US secretary of state Marco Rubio, who is at the talks, said: "We have to understand the Ukrainian position and just have a general idea of what concessions they'd be willing to make, because you're not going to get a ceasefire and an end to this war unless both sides make concessions.
"The Russians can't conquer all of Ukraine, and obviously it'll be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time period to sort of force the Russians back all the way to where they were in 2014."
Rubio is joined at the table by US national security adviser Mike Waltz, while Ukraine's delegation is led by Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Zelensky, who was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but will not be joining the talks.
British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer told Trump on Monday he wants the talks to have a 'positive outcome' that would see military aid and intelligence-sharing resume.
Trump paused the supply of weapons and crucial information for Kyiv's war effort following his public spat with Zelensky.
Map shows how much territory Ukraine has lost to Russia ahead of peace talks (Yahoo News UK)
Flames light up Moscow sky after largest Ukraine drone attack in years (The Independent)
Watch: Moscow Hit by 'Massive' Drone Attack, Russian Officials Say

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