A drone crashed yesterday, just sixty miles southeast of Moscow in an alarming development for Russian defences.
While Putin did not refer to any specific attacks in a speech in the Russian capital, he stepped up border controls hours after drone attacks targeted several areas in southern and western Russia and authorities closed the airspace over St Petersburg in response to what some reports said was a drone.
The drone attacks caused no casualties but provoked a security stir after the war in Ukraine marked its first anniversary last week.
Ukrainian officials did not immediately claim responsibility for the attacks, but they similarly avoided directly acknowledging responsibility for previous strikes and sabotage, while emphasizing Kyiv’s right to hit any target in Russia after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
