Russia is getting used to drone strikes, which are becoming more commonplace as Ukraine tries to take the war into the heart of the neighboring country, which has to channel resources to defend its own infrastructure.
"Moscow is rapidly accustomed to total war, which will soon move definitively to the territory of those responsible for this war in order to collect their debt," Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podoliak said today, commenting on a new attack by drones against the Russian capital.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, reported today that a drone crashed into the façade of one of the skyscrapers that make up the financial heart of the capital, Moscow City, two of whose towers were already damaged last Saturday in a similar attack. .
The anti-aircraft defense also shot down two drones in the Moscow region, one of them in the town of Naro-Fominsk, where the Second Motorized Infantry Division, an elite unit of the Russian Army, is stationed.
"Everything that happens from now on in Russia is a historical process. More drones of unknown origin, more disintegration, more civil conflicts, more war," warned the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency.
For his part, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, tried to downplay the incident and limited himself to stating that "the threat really exists, it is evident and measures are being taken."
But not only the Russian capital was the target of drone strikes. Defense reported that two Russian Navy ships repelled an attack by three Ukrainian aquatic drones.
"Tonight, the Ukrainian Armed Forces unsuccessfully attempted to attack the Black Sea Fleet patrol vessels 'Sergei Kotov' and 'Vasily Bykov' with three unmanned boats" 340 kilometers southwest of the Crimean port of Sevastopol.
Subsequently, Moscow denounced another attack against several Russian merchant ships in the southwestern part of the Black Sea, "which were heading to the Bosphorus Strait in the southwestern part of the Black Sea." According to the military spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, "the Russian Navy ships escorting the maritime transport detected in time" the attacking drones and destroyed them.
Russia, for its part, is also harassing the enemy rear. In the early hours of Tuesday, Shahed attacked the eastern city of Kharkov with Iranian drones and shelled the southern city of Kherson with artillery. "The enemy attacked Kharkov with five Shahed. All the (Emergency) services are working," Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky reported.
For his part, the head of the military administration of Kherson, Roman Mrochko, said that the Russian bombardments claimed the life of "a young doctor, who had started working a few days ago" and seriously injured a nurse.
All this while on the battlefront the struggle between both sides continues without great territorial gains. The spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Shtupun, stated that "in the Zaporizhia direction the enemy is concentrating its efforts on preventing the advance of our troops."
Further north, in the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainians in turn "firmly hold the defense, successfully repelled enemy attacks east of Berestovo, in Kharkiv, and near Novoselivske, in Lugansk," he added.
The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, acknowledged that the Ukrainians "continued their offensive attempts on the Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kupiansk and Liman fronts." However, he assured that he had "successfully repelled" all the attacks in these sectors of the front and assured that in the Kupiansk area the Russian troops "continued their offensive and occupied better positions".
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