Ukraine has told to expect ‘more unidentified drones, more collapse [and] more civil conflicts’ after a skyscraper in Moscow was attacked for the second time in two days.
The strike this morning impacted an office block known as the IQ quarter in Moscow City – a commercial and business district in the capital – which houses the ministry of economic development, the digital ministry and the ministry of industry and trade.
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Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said that citizens in Russia’s capital are ‘rapidly getting used to a fully-fledged war’ as attacks on Russian soil mount.
He added: ‘More unidentified drones, more collapse, more civil conflicts, more war.’
It comes as Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and a professor of international affairs at The New School in New York, told the BBC that the strikes on Moscow expose ‘the cracks’ in Vladimir Putin’s regime.
‘The despair is getting more prevalent, and I think it’s going to be very hard, much harder now to pretend, at least in Moscow that the war is too far away,’ she concluded.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from this morning’s attack, which came just one day after Russia launched a pair of missiles on Ukrainian president Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, .