Explosion in Moscow, UAV shot down
An explosion has occurred around the Karamyshevskaya embankment in the northwestern part of Moscow.
Source: Kremlin-aligned news agency RIA Novosti; RBC; Russian Telegram channels; Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on Telegram
Quote from RIA Novosti: "A loud bang was heard in the area of the Karamyshevskaya embankment."
Details: Eyewitnesses reported to have noticed a device that looked like a drone in Khoroshovo-Mnyovniki district. It allegedly fell in a park near the river.
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Russian media and Telegram channels are posting photos and videos from the scene.
The UAV was spotted near Novorizhskoye Road in Moscow.
Later, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin also reported on the downing of a drone.
Quote from Sobyanin: "One drone attempted to fly over the city. As a result of the air defence response, it was eliminated. When the wreckage fell in the area of the Karamyshevskaya embankment, no one was injured. There is no serious damage. Emergency services are working at the scene."
Telegram channel Mash wrote that the drone flew along the bed of the Moskva River at an altitude of 150 metres and allegedly fell on the premises of Vorokhobov Hospital. Telegram channel 112 reports that the drone fell in the wooded area of the hospital.
Later, the Russian Defence Ministry claimed that it had stopped "an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack with an unmanned aerial vehicle on a facility in Moscow".
Electronic warfare systems reportedly jammed the UAV, which crashed in a forest in western Moscow.
Background: Earlier, Moscow's Vnukovo Airport was reportedly temporarily closed, and Russian emergency services said take-offs and landings at the airport had been postponed.
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