{"id":14527,"date":"2026-05-04T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/14527\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:00:08","slug":"moscow-under-fire-drone-hits-luxury-tower-near-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/14527\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow under fire: Drone hits luxury tower near Kremlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A reported drone attack struck a high-rise residential building in Moscow overnight, damaging a luxury tower located close to the city center, according to Russian officials and local reports.<br \/>&#13;\n <\/p>\n<p>Images and videos circulating on social media appeared to show a drone flying low over the, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyiv Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The site lies around seven kilometers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/azerbaijan-emerges-as-potential-neutral-venue-for-ukraine-russia-peace-talks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kremlin<\/a> and near Red Square, placing the incident deep within Moscow\u2019s central urban area.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin confirmed the attack, saying no casualties were reported. He later added that additional drones heading toward the city had been intercepted by air defenses.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is among the deepest reported strikes into central Moscow in recent months, as drone attacks linked to the ongoing conflict have increasingly targeted locations inside Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has not officially commented on the reported strike, and the extent of the damage has not been independently verified.<\/p>\n<p>The reported attack comes days before Russia\u2019s Victory Day celebrations on May 9, a major national event traditionally held in Red Square.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/aysel-mammadzada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Aysel Mammadzada<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reported drone attack struck a high-rise residential building in Moscow overnight, damaging a luxury tower located close&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1357,93,7955,26,7309],"class_list":{"0":"post-14527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moscow","8":"tag-attack","9":"tag-kremlin","10":"tag-luxury-tower","11":"tag-moscow","12":"tag-red-square"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}