Air defenses in Moscow’s Istra district destroyed a Ukrainian drone that attempted to attack targets in Russia. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced this to journalists. “On September 17 at approximately 1:45 a.m. (local time), an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using drones against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped. The air defenses in action destroyed an unmanned aircraft. “The Ukrainian occupation was located in the territory of the Istria district of the Moscow region,” the ministry and the Russian news agency Tass reported. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported earlier that an air defense system had repelled a drone attack on Moscow and that no casualties or damage had been reported so far.
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Two more Ukrainian drones were destroyed by air defense near Crimea, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.
MOSCOW WILL RESPONSE TO THE BIRTH STRENGTHENING IN THE ARCTIC
Meanwhile, Russia will respond to the strengthening of NATO’s military potential in the Arctic with a number of measures, including preventive ones. Russian Ambassador Nikolai Korchunov told Ria Novosti, emphasizing the increase in political-military tensions in the Arctic due to the “non-constructive line of the United States and its allies, especially in connection with the Russian special operation in Ukraine.” According to the ambassador, “the path to strengthening NATO’s military potential in this region, including through Finland’s accession to the Alliance and the planned inclusion of Sweden, shows the proliferation of violent scenarios in NATO to ensure its own security in northern latitudes. “To the detriment of the security of other countries.”
Moscow, Korchunov warned, will respond to these challenges and threats with “a set of necessary measures, including of a preventive nature, arising from the tasks” outlined by Vladimir Putin within the framework of the foreign policy concept and strategy for foreign policy development Russian Arctic zone.