No plans to raise terrorist threat level in Moscow — Kremlin spokesman

Military & Defense July 31, 2023, 13:45

Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Sunday morning that the city had been attacked by Ukrainian drone, with minor damage being done to two office skyscrapers in the Moscow City

MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. It is not planned to raise the terrorist threat level in Moscow following drone attacks in Moscow and the Moscow Region, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.

"As far as I know, no," he told journalists answering a corresponding question.

Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Sunday morning that the city had been attacked by Ukrainian drone, with minor damage being done to two office skyscrapers in the Moscow City. No one was hurt.

The Russian defense ministry said later that one drone had been destroyed in midair over the Odintsovo district just outside Moscow and two more had been jammed and crashed in the Moscow City. Following the attack Moscow’s Vnukovo airport suspended flights for a time being.

Under Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree, there are four levels of response to terrorist threats: maximal - in Russian new regions, medium, high alert, and basic. Moscow and the Moscow Region are among the regions where a high alert terrorist threat regime in in place.

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