Headline Roundup May 30, 2023
Drone Strikes Hit Moscow; Several Dead in Kyiv Strikes
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Drone strikes hit Moscow on Monday night, reportedly wounding at least two and damaging buildings in the first attack on the Russian capital's wealthy residential areas since its invasion of Ukraine started.
The Details: Russia said it destroyed all eight drones that attacked Moscow, including some over Moscow's exclusive Rublyovka suburb, where many elites have residences, including President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, Russian strikes reportedly killed at least four and wounded several dozen in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Tuesday in the third barrage reported in the last 24 hours.
Key Quotes: Ukraine made no direct comment on the Moscow attacks. Russia's Defense Ministry said Ukraine "launched a terrorist attack with unmanned aerial vehicles on targets in the city of Moscow."
How the Media Covered It: Sources across the English-language media spectrum framed the news as a bad sign for the Kremlin, and said it raised questions about Russia's air defense systems. NBC News (Lean Left) called it "a dramatic display that the Kremlin's war was increasingly coming home." The Daily Mail (Right) said if Ukraine claimed responsibility, it "would be one of its deepest and most daring strikes into Russia" since the war started. Russian state-funded media highlighted Russia's "terrorist attack" remark and focused more on how all the drones were reportedly neutralized by Russian defenses.
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REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
Ukrainian drones struck Moscow on Tuesday, Russia said in what one politician called the worst such attack since World War Two, while Kyiv was also hit by air for the third time in 24 hours.
Since Russia sent troops into its neighbour in February last year, the war has largely been fought inside Ukraine, though Moscow has reported some attacks on its territory and said one was an assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin.
Tuesday's early morning raid targeted some of Moscow's wealthiest areas including a western zone where Putin and the elite have...
AFP via Getty
Moscow was attacked this morning by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drones just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed yet another volley of strikes on Kyiv.
Several buildings were damaged in wealthy suburbs of Moscow, including the elite district of Rublyovka to the south-west of the capital.
One drone exploded into a mushroom cloud near the village of Usovo, which is just down the road from Putin's official Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside of the capital.
'[Putin's residence] would be in earshot of the explosion,' one local said.
In the city, explosive drones...
Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP - Getty Images
Moscow was hit by drones Tuesday morning, in what appeared to be the first attack on residential areas of the Russian capital since the invasion of Ukraine and a dramatic display that the Kremlin's war was increasingly coming home.
The incident caused damage to some buildings and forced residents to evacuate homes, local officials said.
It comes weeks after an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin itself and following days of deadly Russian bombardment against civilians in Kyiv, as events far from the front lines take the spotlight ahead of Ukraine’s planned counteroffensive.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement...
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