Moscow is facing many risks of being attacked by UAVs.

Authorities and fire trucks stand in front of the building attacked by a drone in Moscow.

TASS reported on August 1st that a high-rise building in the commercial district of Moscow, Russia, was attacked by a drone for the second time in three days, while Moscow accused Kyiv of being behind the incident.

The building houses the offices of three ministries and is considered the "IQ zone," including the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Digital Technology, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The images show damage to the building's glass exterior.

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According to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, several UAVs were shot down en route to Moscow, but one managed to bypass air defenses and reach a building in the Moscow City complex.

He said the damaged exterior area covered approximately 150 ^square meters on the 21st floor and no one was injured. The Russian Ministry of Defense further clarified that two UAVs were destroyed in the Odintsovo and Naro-Fominsk districts near Moscow.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow is facing a clear risk of a potential drone attack, and added that appropriate security measures are being implemented.

Moscow has been targeted by drone attacks since May. Ukraine has not directly claimed responsibility, but has expressed satisfaction with the incidents, according to Reuters.

"Moscow is rapidly becoming accustomed to a full-scale war," wrote Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the Ukrainian president, on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

The Ukrainian army says the fighting was fierce and bloody.

He said that Russia would see "more unidentified drones, more collapses, more civil conflicts, more wars."

In Ukraine, officials in Kharkiv – the country's second-largest city – said Russian drones had attacked densely populated areas, with one destroying two floors of a university dormitory.

Kharkiv regional police chief Volodymyr Tymoshko said there were two attacks overnight, targeting a university and the city center. Kharkiv governor Oleh Synehubov said a sports center in the Shevchenkivskyi district was attacked, injuring one security guard.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims that Russia attacked Kharkiv with five Shahed drones. Russia has not commented on these reports from Ukraine.

Both sides issued statements.

According to TASS, citing information from the Russian Ministry of Defense on August 1, Moscow thwarted a Ukrainian plot to deploy three unmanned motorboats to attack two Russian Navy ships in the Black Sea, approximately 340 km southwest of Sevastopol.

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Accordingly, Russian ships are patrolling the area to monitor maritime traffic. Russia had previously stated that any ship arriving at or leaving Ukrainian ports would be a target of attack, after Moscow withdrew from the Black Sea grain agreement.

This incident marked the first confrontation between Ukrainian and Russian Navy drones in deep waters. Kyiv has previously used drones to target Russian naval bases in Crimea and the bridge Russia built on the peninsula.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the ships Sergei Kotov and Vasily Bykov continue their missions in the Black Sea. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said Kyiv had thwarted an attempt by a Russian sabotage group to cross the northern border into Ukraine.

"Last night, in the Chernihiv region, border guards thwarted an attempt by an enemy reconnaissance group to cross the border in the Semenivka area," he said. A Ukrainian military official said the group of four Russians were repelled by border guard fire.

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Neither Russia nor Ukraine has commented on the other's claims.

Russian Chief of General Staff arrives at the front lines.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced on August 1 that the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, had visited Russian soldiers in the Zaporizhzhia region near the front lines in Ukraine.

General Gerasimov inspected a command center and stressed the importance of preemptive strikes against Ukrainian forces. A video showed him looking at a map, receiving instructions, and boarding a helicopter, according to Reuters.

For months, Gerasimov was the target of criticism from Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenaries, and several Russian military bloggers regarding the situation. After Wagner staged a brief rebellion on June 24, some questioned Gerasimov's ability to continue his work.

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More than two weeks passed before his first public appearance on July 10. The statement seemed intended to show that Gerasimov was not only continuing his work but also meeting with soldiers on the front lines.

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