A drone attack caused “minor damage” to several buildings in Moscow on Tuesday, according to the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine to seek to “terrify” the Russians on Tuesday, May 30, after an unprecedented drone attack on Moscow and its region, as kyiv suffered a new wave of deadly strikes. Here’s what to remember from this day on the war front in Ukraine.
A drone attack in Moscow
A drone attack caused “minor damage” several buildings in Moscow on Tuesday, according to the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin. In a press release (in Russian), the Russian Ministry of Defense said that eight drones had been involved in the attack, and that they had all been neutralized by the defense systems. Some wrecks nevertheless fell on houses. Two people were slightly injured, said the mayor of Moscow.
Ukraine has denied any involvement, but Vladimir Putin has accused kyiv of wanting “terrify Russia” And “to intimidate Russian citizens”.
One dead and 11 injured in kyiv
kyiv has suffered a series of missile attacks and Russian drone attacks for several days. Another person was killed and eleven residents were injured in kyiv overnight from Monday to Tuesday, in the third salvo of attacks in 24 hours, according to local authorities. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 29 Iranian-made explosive drones out of 31 launched overnight, “almost all near the capital and in the sky of kyiv”.
A bombardment in the Belgorod region
On Tuesday evening, the governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, affirmed that a bombardment had left one dead and two injured in a center for displaced persons. “Ukrainian armed forces fired artillery at a center for displaced people housing elderly civilians and children… A security guard was killed and two people injured,” assured Vyacheslav Gladkov on Telegram. The Belgorod region has been targeted on several occasions by Ukrainian bombardments, as well as by incursion attempts by armed groups from Ukraine.
IAEA calls for compliance with five principles to avoid an accident in Zaporizhia
The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, on Tuesday called on Russia and Ukraine to support five “concrete principles” to ensure the security of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhya, occupied by the Russian army. First principle, “there must be no attack of any kind from or against the plant, in particular targeting reactors, spent fuel or other infrastructure, or personnel”. These principles also include that the site is not used to store heavy weapons or military personnel, and that the plant cannot be disconnected from the electricity grid.