An explosion sounded in Moscow: the Expocentre pavilion was damaged
Date: 2023-08-18 Author: Кирило Загоруйко Categories: WORLD
Loud again in the capital of the Russian Federation - Russian Telegram channels report a drone crash in the center of Moscow.
According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the drone was destroyed by air defense forces while trying to fly to Moscow. Its fragments fell in the Expocentre area.
According to Russian TV channels, partial damage occurred in one of the Expocentre pavilions in the center of Moscow.
"Partial collapse of the outer wall was recorded in one of the pavilions of the Expocentre on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment. The collapse area is about 30 square meters," writes the Russian TASS agency.
According to other TV channels, the drone that fell in the Expocentre area is a Ukrainian kamikaze drone "Bober".
At 3:40 in the morning, he was spotted flying over the SNT "Zarnitsa" in the Krasnogorsk region.
Around 4 am, he was shot down by air defense forces and crashed near Moscow City. The wreckage damaged the eighth pavilion of the Expocentre. Initially, there were no casualties.
RosSMI writes that the same Bober UAV crashed on August 11 in the area of the Picturesque Bridge in the north-west of Moscow. The flight range of such a drone is 600-1000 km, as a warhead - a shaped charge KZ-6.
