Several buildings have been damaged by drone attacks in Moscow.
By Thomas Spencer & Olga Robinson & Jake HortonRussia says Ukraine has launched "a terrorist drone attack" on Moscow, with several buildings damaged.
It is the first time Moscow has been so heavily targeted in a single operation, but Ukraine denies carrying out the strikes.It says five were shot down and three stopped with signal jamming technology - causing them to lose control and miss their targets. By piecing together visual clues in video footage - such as building exteriors and parks - BBC Verify has confirmed the location of three drone strikes in south-west Moscow:A high-rise apartment block, where a drone reportedly flew into an apartment on the 13th floorImage caption,We have also verified footage on the western outskirts of Moscow. It shows an unidentified drone flying over roofs in a village where affluent Muscovites live.
"We don't know what they were targeting yet, a proportion were intercepted by air defence systems, but some struck targets," Jack Watling, an expert on land warfare, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. Russia said it shot down five of the drones in the Moscow region with the Pantsir-S surface-to-air missile system. This system appeared to have been
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