Four unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defenses near Moscow, and the fifth was neutralized by an "electronic warfare system" and crashed in Sub-Moscow region, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
"An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist act with five drones" that targeted locations in Sub-Moscow and on the outskirts of Moscow was prevented this morning, the ministry announced.
There were no casualties or damage in the attack, the ministry added.
Vnukovo Airport, where several flights were diverted to other airports early this morning, "resumed operations" around 5.00:XNUMX a.m. CET, the Russian Air Transport Agency announced.
"The attempt by the Kyiv regime to attack the area where civilian infrastructures are located, including the airport that receives international flights, is a new act of terrorism," Russian diplomacy spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
She added that it is "international terrorism, since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is carrying out these terrorist acts using weapons supplied by the West or purchased with Western funds."
On June 21, the Russian authorities announced that they had neutralized three drones in the Moscow region, including two near a military base. At the time, the Ukrainian authorities were also accused of being responsible for the attack.
Ukraine is getting more tanks
Ukraine, on the other hand, continues to strengthen its weapons. In the coming weeks, they will receive several dozen Leopard 1 A5 tanks from Germany and Denmark, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, who is visiting Poland, said today in an interview with the Polish newspaper Rechpospolita.
Dozens of Leopard 1 A5 battle tanks, provided by Germany and Denmark, will arrive in Ukraine in the coming weeks, he said, according to Tass.
Pistorius stated that the package of military aid to Kiev was prepared in May.
In May, we prepared a new aid package of 2,7 billion euros, which includes other urgently needed weapons, as well as additional air defense systems," said Pistorius.
Ukrainian troops have already used Leopard tanks in the counteroffensive, which began on June 4, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said earlier that the Russian army destroyed 16 Leopards in Donbass and Zaporozhye in June.
The loss of several German tanks was confirmed in an interview with the Washington Post by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.
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