Moscow is facing many risks of being attacked by UAVs.

Chiến sự đến tối 1.8: UAV lại tấn công Moscow; Ukraine phát hiện âm mưu của Nga - Ảnh 1. — Authorities and fire trucks in front of a building attacked by a UAV in Moscow

TASS news agency reported on August 1 that a high-rise building in a commercial area in the Russian capital Moscow was attacked by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the second time in three days, while Moscow accused Kyiv of being behind the incident.

The building houses three ministries and is considered an “IQ zone”, including the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Digital Affairs and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Images show damage to the building’s glass facade.

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According to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, several UAVs were shot down on the way to Moscow, but one managed to get past air defenses and reach a building in the Moscow City complex.

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

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was facing a clear risk of being attacked by drones, and said appropriate security measures were being taken.

Moscow has been under attack by UAVs since May. Ukraine has not directly claimed responsibility, but has expressed satisfaction with the events, according to Reuters.

“Moscow is rapidly getting used to full-scale war,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, wrote on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter.

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Russia will see “more unidentified UAVs, more crashes, more civil conflicts, more wars,” he said.

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

Kharkiv police chief Volodymyr Tymoshko said there had been two attacks overnight, one on a university and the city centre. Kharkiv governor Oleh Synehubov said a sports centre in the Shevchenkivskyi district was attacked, injuring a security guard.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia attacked Kharkiv with five Shahed UAVs. Russia has not commented on the Ukrainian information.

The two sides issued a statement.

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

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Russian ships are patrolling the area to control shipping. Russia has previously said any ships arriving or departing from ports in Ukraine are targets of attack, after Moscow withdrew from the Black Sea grain deal.

The incident was the first confrontation between Ukrainian drones and the Russian Navy in deep waters. Kyiv has previously used drones to target Russia’s naval base in Crimea and a bridge Russia built across the peninsula.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the ships Sergei Kotov and Vasily Bykov were continuing their mission in the Black Sea. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said Kyiv had prevented a Russian sabotage group from crossing the northern border into Ukraine.

"Last night in the Chernihiv region, border guards prevented an attempt by a group of enemy saboteurs to cross the border in the Semenivka area," he said. A Ukrainian military official said the group of four Russians was repelled by border guards' fire.

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Russia and Ukraine have not commented on each other's information.

Russian Chief of General Staff goes to the front line

The Russian Defense Ministry said on August 1 that Chief of the General Staff of the Russian army Valery Gerasimov visited Russian soldiers in the Zaporizhzhia region near the front line in Ukraine.

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

For months, Mr. Gerasimov had been the target of criticism from Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenaries, and some Russian military bloggers over the fighting. After Wagner staged a brief mutiny on June 24, some questioned Mr. Gerasimov’s ability to stay in the job.

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

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