{"id":14925,"date":"2026-05-05T05:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/14925\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:05:08","slug":"ukrainian-drone-strikes-moscow-skyscraper-threatens-victory-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/14925\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Drone Strikes Moscow Skyscraper, Threatens Victory Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ukrainian drone hit a luxury high-rise tower in Moscow on Monday, a rare attack near the heart of the Russian capital just days before this year’s Victory Day parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Multiple videos posted on Russian Telegram news channels appear to show debris strewn across a main road near the Mosfilm tower, a two-building residential complex about 4 miles from Moscow’s city center.<\/p>\n

Business Insider was unable to determine when these videos and photos were taken, but they are consistent with street markings and the city layout near the Mosfilm tower.<\/p>\n

Another clip showed emergency vehicles and halted road traffic at a junction next to the complex.<\/p>\n

The taller of the two buildings appears to have been the target, with photos showing visible damage to one of the 54-floor tower’s upper levels.<\/p>\n

Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, confirmed an attack on Monday evening, saying that a drone had struck a building on Mosfilmovskaya Street. Sobyanin said that there were no injuries.<\/p>\n

Monday’s attack on the Mosfilm tower is one of Ukraine’s deepest drone hits<\/a> in the heavily defended Russian capital. The skyscraper is located in one of Moscow’s most affluent neighborhoods, with major foreign embassies down the road and a nearby city-center golf range.<\/p>\n

The strike also comes five days before Russia is set to hold its annual parade celebrating the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II.<\/p>\n

Over the last few years, Ukraine has harassed Moscow with attempted drone attacks in the lead-up to the parade, which is one of the grandest displays of Russia’s military might.<\/p>\n

As Moscow prepared last year to host dozens of world leaders for one of its highest-profile editions of the parade, Kyiv repeatedly disrupted local airports<\/a> by launching waves of drone attacks.<\/p>\n

This year, the Kremlin said it would hold a scaled-down version of the parade, with no displays of significant military equipment due to the war situation and the threat of Ukrainian attack.<\/p>\n

“This is telling,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday while attending a summit in Armenia. “It shows they are not strong now.”<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy hinted at further drone threats on Moscow this month, saying that Russian officials “fear drones may buzz over Red Square” during the parade.<\/p>\n

The Russian defense ministry said that it had shot down at least 117 Ukrainian drones bound for the capital on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

With Moscow about 275 miles from the nearest Ukrainian border, Kyiv often uses fixed-wing drones<\/a> to attack the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ukrainian drone hit a luxury high-rise tower in Moscow on Monday, a rare attack near the heart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8073,1357,915,8077,8075,4520,26,8072,8074,8078,5,8076,1802,2867,903,7142],"class_list":{"0":"post-14925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moscow","8":"tag-annual-parade","9":"tag-attack","10":"tag-day","11":"tag-grand-display","12":"tag-last-few-year","13":"tag-monday","14":"tag-moscow","15":"tag-moscow-skyscraper","16":"tag-mosfilm-tower","17":"tag-photo","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-russian-capital","20":"tag-sergei-sobyanin","21":"tag-ukraine-drone","22":"tag-ukrainian-drone","23":"tag-victory-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925","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=14925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}