Moscow’s Vnukovo worldwide airport was closed to site visitors early on Sunday, a Russian state information company reported, after town mayor stated Ukrainian drones hit buildings within the capital.

“Two metropolis workplace tower facades have been insignificantly broken,” town’s mayor stated within the publish on Sunday. No person was injured. Moscow’s Vnukovo airport was closed with flights diverted to different airports, Tass reported.

Moscow and its environs, mendacity about 500 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, had been not often focused in the course of the battle in Ukraine till a number of drone assaults this yr, reported information company AFP.

The Sunday assault is the most recent in a collection of latest drone strikes, together with on the Kremlin and Russian cities close to the border with Ukraine, that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv.

“The capital’s Vnukovo airport is closed for departures and arrivals, flights are redirected to different airports,” TASS reported. “This was reported by the aviation providers.”

Earlier this month, a volley of drone assaults briefly disrupted air site visitors on the identical airport, to town’s southwest. Russia stated it had downed 5 Ukrainian drones that night time.

The assaults on Moscow come a number of weeks right into a Ukrainian counter-offensive to claw again territory captured by Russia since large-scale hostilities erupted in February 2022.

Russia’s international ministry has stated such assaults “wouldn’t be potential with out the assistance offered to the Kyiv regime by the US and its NATO allies”.

On Friday Russia stated it had intercepted two Ukrainian missiles over its southern Rostov area bordering Ukraine, with not less than 16 individuals wounded by particles falling on town of Taganrog.

Areas bordering Ukraine have seen common drone strikes and shelling since Moscow launched its army marketing campaign in February final yr, however have hardly been focused by missiles.

The ministry stated the primary S-200 missile was aimed toward “residential infrastructure” of Taganrog, a metropolis of round 250,000 individuals.

Shortly after, it stated it downed a second S-200 missile close to town of Azov, with particles falling in an unpopulated space.

On the opposite aspect of the border, not less than one civilian was killed in a Russian missile assault on the northeast Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy, in keeping with nationwide police, who added that there have been 5 injured.

“On the night of July 29, an enemy missile hit an academic establishment. Legislation enforcement officers are working on the scene, recording the results,” the power posted on Telegram, placing the preliminary toll at “not less than one civilian useless and 5 injured”.

In line with public broadcaster Suspilne, the constructing was destroyed in an explosion at about 8:00 pm (1700 GMT).

In early July, a Russian drone assault hit an condo constructing in the identical metropolis, killing three and wounding 21.

A Russian strike killed two individuals within the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, authorities there stated.

(With inputs from AFP)