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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Moscow region on the night of May 17. Ukrainian fans maleThis is the largest attack on Moscow since the beginning of the comprehensive invasion of Russian forces in Ukraine, and dozens of objects have been damaged.
Moscow. It follows from Sobyanin’s messages on his Telegram channel that from midnight to 7 a.m. alone, 81 drones were shot down on their approaches to Moscow, and in the last 24 hours alone, the air defense forces shot down more than 120 drones.
According to Sobyanin, one of the strikes hit the entrance to the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya, where construction workers were injured. “The factory’s technology has not been touched,” the city chief said. Eyewitness footage shows the drone falls Near the oil refinery. It is unclear where he ended up. Whether we are really talking about a checkpoint, as Sobyanin stated, is unknown.
As a result of the drone attack, according to preliminary information, 12 people were injured, most of them near the entrance to the refinery. In addition, three homes were damaged. by Data Astra, the facade of an apartment building in Zelenograd (part of Moscow) was damaged. Eyewitnesses It has been removed Image showing the aftermath of a drone hitting a residential building on Mikhailova Street.
Target of the strike in Zelenograd become Technopark “Elma” which produces electronic and optical equipment.
After a Ukrainian drone attack, a fire broke out at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Reports Astra. According to preliminary data, the fire broke out in the third runway, but it is not known what is burning there. The airport said that the drone’s debris fell there and that it was “a safe distance from passenger and aircraft service areas.” The airport was closed during the attack, which led to the cancellation or delay of about 200 flights. Some planes were sent to alternative airports.
Moscow region. The region’s governor, Andrei Vorobyov, said that three local residents were killed and four people were injured in the area as a result of the attack. According to him, a woman died due to drone bombing of residential buildings in Khimki, and a man and a woman in Mytishchi.
The governor said drones struck residential buildings in Krasnogorsk and Dedovsk, private homes in Agrogorodok near Istra and in the village of Subbotino near Naro-Fominsk. Judging by framework In Khimki, eyewitnesses said that a drone struck a residential building certain This information.
“In addition, infrastructure facilities in many municipalities were attacked,” Vorobiev said. Russian and Ukrainian telegraph channels reported that after the strike in the Moscow region, a fire broke out at the Solnechnogorsk gas station. The station is dedicated to receiving, storing and distributing petroleum products.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that in the period from 22:00 on May 16 to 7:00 on May 17, the air defense forces shot down 556 Ukrainian drones over the regions of Russia, as well as the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed.
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
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Leo. On the 1,525th day of the war, missiles arrived in the city of my childhood. Several homes were damaged and people died.
I left there several years ago, but my friends, relatives and former colleagues are still there. They wrote to me about the sirens howling at night, how scary it is. Even those with whom I had not communicated for a long time wrote, because in February 2022 they were sincerely happy: “Hurray! We are killing the tops!”
I did not remind them of this. But I have not forgotten how they rejoiced, nor how they wrote to me from Kiev at four in the morning on February 24: “We are being bombed.”
For some reason, at the beginning of the war, Cheboksary seemed to me a quiet, safe city, where absolutely nothing happens. I was wrong. We’ve all made mistakes. When I was a child, I could not understand how the good Germans and Italians allowed such monsters to come to power. Now I look at the photographs and videos that Meduza took of the city I grew up in, and I don’t understand how we ended up doing so well at this point.
Perhaps today’s children will find the answer to this question. They will not allow this anymore, and the phrase “peace in the world” will no longer be cynical, and in some cases actually extreme.