What do we know about the drone strike on Moscow?


  • World
  • Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Vehicles of emergency service are parked near a damaged multi-storey apartment block following a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

(Edits headline and lead)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine launched one of its biggest ever drone attacks on Moscow on Tuesday though all of them were destroyed by air defence systems, Russia's defence ministry said.

The attack came just weeks after the Kremlin was hit in a drone strike that Russia blamed on Ukraine.

Here is what we know so far:

(This story has been refiled to edit the headline and lead paragraph)

(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

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