Two large blasts hit the Moscow-City business district of the Russian capital overnight on July 30, apparently from drone attacks, causing damage to two office buildings, halting traffic, and temporarily shutting down one of Moscow’s airports.
While the announcement on Saturday did not explicitly mention Wagner or other paramilitary groups, Russian media outlets have suggested that the new contracts are an effort to bring Prigozhin and his forces under tighter control
they keep coming. are they having an effect? reporter: they are having a massive effect. first of all, they are terrorizing the residents of kyiv. this is the sixth wave of attacks in just as many days. of course you have to remember yesterday a 9-year-old girl and her mother were killed waiting outside aen air raid shelter and then it also serves to really stretch the resources of kyiv. ukraine is preparing for this much anticipated counter offensive right on those front lines in the east of the country. yet it also has to defend its citizens, its families all the way in the west and in the capital. and finally, you have to remember that those drones being fired by russia, they are an extremely cheap technology. the missiles it requires to take out one of those drones costs 20 times as much as the drone itself. so you can again to see how moscow s strategy is not just terrify the residents of kyiv but also force ukraine to use up valuable resources.
Tuesday’s drone attack – in which at least eight of them entered Moscow’s airspace – is different and significant in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The incident took place in Rublyovka, an area where oligarchs, politicians and top officials live in luxurious gated communities, bringing the war home to them