UAV crashes into Expocentre pavilion near Moscow City towers. All four Moscow airports limit traffic temporarily following incident.
The Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin notified Muscovites about a drone attack that took place in downtown Moscow around 4 a.m. local time on Friday morning. According to the official, the UAV’s remnants fell near the Expocentre convention space without causing major damage or injuries to people.
Russia’s Defense Ministry framed the incident as “another terrorist attack” attempted by “the Kyiv regime.” The UAV, the ministry reported, was shot down by the air defense systems and “crashed onto a non-residential building” near Moscow’s Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment.
The crash site isn’t far from the Moscow City business center, which had been attacked by drones earlier this summer.
Eyewitness footage from the scene shows smoke rising over the area. The Telegram news channel Baza writes that 30 square meters (or over 300 square feet) of pavilion space may have been demolished, according to reports that are yet to be verified.
Mash reports that one of the exhibition pavilions has a damaged roof. Moscow’s emergency services have told the state news agency RIA Novosti that one of the exhibition center’s facades has been shattered.
All four Moscow airports — Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, and Zhukovsky — temporarily limited air traffic in response to the drone attack. By 4:30 a.m. Moscow time, regular flights had resumed.
