Russia shoots down drone over Crimea

Russian forces have shot down an Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV) in the Sevastopol district of Crimea as Ukraine increases its drone attacks on Russian targets.

“A UAV was shot down in the Kara-Koba area,” Sevastopol Governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said on Telegram on Tuesday.

He said an explosion occurred when the UAV crashed into the ground, causing a fire.

“Grass and bushes caught fire. Fire brigades are already on site and have begun to put out the blaze,” added Razvozhaev.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the capital city was targeted by several drones overnight on Tuesday.

Sobyanin wrote on his Telegram channel that the same high-rise building had come under attack earlier.

“One [of the drones] flew into the same tower at the Moskva Citi complex hit previously. The facade has been damaged on the 21st floor. Glazing was destroyed over 150 square meters.”

"Several drones attempting to fly into Moscow were downed by anti-aircraft fire," Sobyanin wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

There were no reports of casualties.

Russia says it thwarted Ukrainian 'terrorist' drone attacks on Moscow

Russia declares its air defenses have thwarted another Ukrainian “terrorist attack” using drones against capital Moscow.

The incident comes two days after Moscow had been targeted by three Ukrainian drones, with one crashing in the capital.

Later, Russia's Defense Ministry said that its forces had "thwarted a terrorist attack by the Kiev regime" and downed two drones in western Moscow.

"Yet another (drone) was hit by radio-electronic equipment and, having run out of control, crashed on the territory of the complex of non-residential buildings at Moskva Citi," the ministry said.

Moscow's Vnukovo international airport was briefly closed and then reopened on Tuesday, reported TASS.

TASS quoted emergency services as saying that debris from the fallen drone had been located and would be analyzed.

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Reuters spoke to Moscow residents who were near the site of the drone attack.

“In this situation, any place can be hit, so it is quite hard to feel 100 percent safe,” said Alexander Gusev, 67. “No one is safe in this situation because we don’t know what will hit us and where.”

“I feel safe. I’m originally from Donetsk, so I consider this a minor incident … You should just adjust your attitude and everything will be fine,” said another resident, Kirill, 32, who declined to give his last name.

One eyewitness said, “We were going to see the tower where the explosion happened the day before yesterday … Suddenly there was this explosion, and we immediately ran."

“There were shards of glass, and then smoke rising. Then the security services starting running that way. The shards were really big,” the eyewitness added.

In France, Ukraine's Zelensky presses for fighter jets

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has traveled to France, his second foreign destination in a single day after the United Kingdom, where he met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, pressing them for more weaponry, fighter jets in particular, amid the ongoing war with Russia.

The Russian capital city Moscow, which has been targeted several times, is about 500 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.

Another drone attack on the Kremlin in May was described as an attempt on President Vladimir Putin’s life.

Back then Kiev had denied carrying out the drone attack on the Kremlin.

In this regard, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a warning, threatening the Kremlin that war was coming to Moscow.

He claimed that Ukraine was getting stronger and attacks on Russian territory were an "inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process."

Kremlin: No peaceful settlement in Ukraine as long as Kiev serves as West’s tool in war with Russia

The Kremlin spokesman dismisses the possibility of a peaceful settlement in Ukraine as long as Kiev serves as a tool for the West in its war against Russia.

"Today is the 522nd day of the so-called 'Special Military Operation', which the Russian leadership thought would last a couple of weeks," he said in a video address on Sunday from the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk.

"Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia - to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process," he said. Till now, Kiev has not openly admitted to carrying out any attacks against targets inside Russia.

Russia has warned the West against supporting Kiev’s “Nazi” regime with advanced weapons, saying it would only intensify the war and add to the damage and losses.

Moscow launched its military campaign in eastern Ukraine in February 2022 to aid the persecuted Russian-speaking population there and stop NATO’s eastward encroachment towards its borders.

Russia would have to use nuclear weapon if Ukraine succeeded to tear off part of our land: Medvedev

A senior Russian security official says Moscow would have to use a nuclear weapon if Ukraine succeeded to tear off part of the Russian territory in its counteroffensive.

Meanwhile, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned once more on Sunday that Moscow would have to use its nuclear arsenal if Kiev took a part of its motherland.

Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council - a body chaired by Putin - said on social media that to defend the country's integrity against foreign aggression in the worst-case scenario the Kremlin would be left with "no other option."

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