Ukraine targets Moscow with drones, Russia says

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The Russian emblem  flies connected  the dome of the Kremlin Senate gathering  down  Spasskaya Tower, successful  cardinal  Moscow, Russia. File.

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Ukraine launched a bid of drone attacks connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) targeting ‍Moscow, parts of occidental Russia and annexed ​Crimea, injuring 1 idiosyncratic adjacent the ‌Russian capital, Russian authorities said.

Russia’s ​air defence units destroyed a full of 27 Ukrainian drones successful the three-hour play starting astatine 8 p.m. (1700 GMT), including 3 implicit the Moscow region, the Russian defence ministry said connected the ​Telegram messaging app.

Andrei Vorobyov, politician ⁠of the Moscow region, said connected Telegram that 21 Ukrainian drones were downed during the ​day implicit the region. ⁠One civilian idiosyncratic was injured arsenic a effect of the attack.

The reported attacks came a time after Russia ‌accused Ukraine, without providing evidence, of ‌trying to onslaught President Vladimir Putin’s residence.

Kyiv dismissed the allegations arsenic ‍baseless and aimed astatine derailing bid talks successful the warfare that Russia launched ‍against Ukraine astir 4 years ago.

There were nary contiguous reports of harm from the strikes. Russia seldom discloses the afloat grade of harm from Ukrainian attacks unless civilians oregon civilian infrastructure are affected.

Separately, a powerfulness outage deed a municipality ⁠outside Moscow aft a method responsibility astatine a determination powerfulness facility, ​RIA reported, citing powerfulness authorities.

The SHOT Telegram ⁠news channel, which has sources among Russia’s information services, said astir 100,000 residents were affected.

There was nary contiguous grounds the outage was linked ⁠to Ukraine.

Published - December 31, 2025 05:31 americium IST

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