INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Drones targeted the Moscow City business and finance district, a cluster of modern skyscrapers towering over the Russian capital, for the
second time in three days Tuesday.But while Kyiv said the back-to-back incidents were a sign of how the war has come home to Russia a year
and a half into its offensive on Ukraine, Muscovites living and working in the district who spoke to The Moscow Times appeared largely
unfazed."No one is particularly surprised by the attack on Moscow City" after the drone attack on the Kremlin in May and a string of
offices of large corporations and government agencies, as well as expensive apartments rented by businesspeople and celebrities.The drone
damaged the 21st floor of the building that houses three government ministries, as well as state agricultural bank Rosselkhozbank
Local authorities said the drone fell on the building after it was shot down by the city's air defenses
Similarly, two drones crashed into skyscrapers on the night of July 30.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said no one was injured, while emergency
services reported that one security guard was injured.An employee of the majority state-owned bank VTB, whose office is also located in
requested anonymity in order to speak freely about potentially sensitive matters.Drone attacks on the Russian capital, which would have been
Russian capital has faced five attacks, one of which targeted the Defense Ministry headquarters
In May, Russia said that Ukraine carried out a drone attack on the Kremlin in an attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, with Putin
City attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that "war" was coming to Russia."Gradually, the war is returning to the
with the terrorist attack of Sept
11, 2001 in the United States.Pelagia Tikhonova / Moskva News AgencyNevertheless, large companies and government agencies have been in no
Development Ministry were allowed to work remotely for a week, while employees of the Ozon online marketplace were sent home for just two
days, the Kommersant business daily reported.Russian IT giant Yandex has asked its employees to leave the office at night, Reuters
Kommersant wrote, citing experts and real estate brokers
They noted that they expected security measures in the business center to be tightened.Unlike most employees of companies who were not in
She was screaming that we needed to run away from home
compared the explosion to the Sept
11 terrorist attack and added that he had expected something similar to happen in Moscow
