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		</div><p>Ukraine attacked Russia with drones on Sunday, damaging two office buildings just miles from the Kremlin and a pig breeding complex on the countries’ border.</p>
<p>The attacks, which Ukraine did not acknowledge in keeping with its security policy, reflected a pattern of more frequent and deeper cross-border strikes the Kyiv government has launched since starting a counter-offensive against Russian forces in June.</p>
<p>A precursor and the most dramatic of the strikes happenned in May on the Kremlin itself, the seat of power in the capital, Moscow.</p>
<p>Sunday’s was the fourth such strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, showing Moscow’s vulnerability as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.</p>
<p>The Russian Defense Ministry said three drones targeted the city in an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime”.</p>
<p>Air defences shot down one drone in Odintsovo in the surrounding Moscow region, while two others were jammed and crashed into the Moscow City business district.</p>
<p>Photos and video showed that a drone had ripped off part of the facade of a modern skyscraper, the IQ-Quarter, 4.5 miles from the Kremlin.</p>
<p>When the drone hit, sparks, flames and smoke spewed from the building, with debris falling on to the street.</p>
<p>A security guard was injured, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials. Russia’s Ria-Novosti news agency reported the building’s tenants included several government agencies.</p>
<p>Flights were temporarily suspended at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, and the airspace over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed.</p>
<p>President Vladimir Putin, who was in his home town of St Petersburg at the time of the attempted attacks for meetings with African leaders and a naval celebration, was briefed, his spokesman said.</p>
<p>Ukrainian officials did not acknowledge the attacks but President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address: “Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia — to its symbolic centres and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process.”</p>
<p>A Ukrainian air force spokesman also did not claim responsibility but said the Russian people were seeing the consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine.</p>
<p>“All of the people who think the war ‘doesn’t concern them’ — it’s already touching them,” spokesperson Yurii Ihnat told journalists.</p>
<p>“There’s already a certain mood in Russia: that something is flying in, and loudly,” he said. “There’s no discussion of peace or calm in the Russian interior any more. They got what they wanted.”</p>
<p>Mr Ihnat also referenced a drone attack on Crimea early on Sunday – Ukrainian territory which Russia occupied and illegally annexed in 2014.</p>
<p>The Russian Defence Ministry announced it had shot down 16 Ukrainian drones and neutralised eight others through electronic jamming. No casualties were reported.</p>
<p>Mr Zelensky has vowed to take back all land Russian forces have occupied, including Crimea, and his efforts have been strengthened by the receipt and deployment of increasingly advanced Western weapons.</p>
<p>In the earlier attacks on Moscow, Russia’s Defence Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside the city on Friday.</p>
<figure id="attachment_179951" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-179951" style="width: 790px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/62893E73-A4BA-4559-B650-A70E0087E24E.jpeg" alt="" width="790" height="533" class="size-full wp-image-179951" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-179951" class="wp-caption-text">The Russian Defence Ministry referred to the incident as an ‘attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime</figcaption></figure>
<p>Four days earlier, two drones struck the Russian capital, one of them falling in the centre of the city near the Defence Ministry’s headquarters along the Moscow River about 2 miles from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.</p>
<p>In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said air defences downed four drones on Moscow’s outskirts and jammed a fifth that was forced down.</p>
<p>Russia has also blamed Ukrainian forces for attacking border areas, and on Sunday, the governor of one such region, Bryansk, said a Ukrainian strike damaged a pig breeding complex and injured three people.</p>
<p>In Ukraine, the air force reported that it had destroyed four Russian drones above the Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Information on the attacks could not be independently verified.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike late on Saturday killed two people and wounded 20 in the city of Sumy in north-east Ukraine.</p>
<p>A four-storey vocational college building was hit, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said. Local authorities said accommodation and teaching buildings were damaged in the blast and a fire that followed.</p>
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