A drone attacked Moscow on the night of 17-18 August, with an explosion occurring near the Moscow-City business centre. The Expocentre building was damaged when drone debris fell on its roof, breaking through and causing a collapse in the 8th pavilion over an area of 30 square metres.
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A drone attacked Moscow on the night of 17-18 August, with an explosion occurring near the Moscow-City business centre. The Expocentre building was damaged when drone debris fell on its roof, breaking through and causing a collapse in the 8th pavilion over an area of 30 square metres.
An attempted strike on Aug. 18 allegedly caused debris to fall near the Moscow Expocentre
Explosions potentially related to drones were heard and recorded over Moscow.
During the night, an air defence force shot down a drone attempting to fly over Moscow. The wreckage fell in the area of the Expocentre.
On 18 August, at around 04.00 a.m. Moscow time, the Kyiv regime carried out another terrorist attack using an unmanned aerial vehicle against targets located in Moscow and the Moscow region.
The facade of a one-storey pavilion was damaged in the area of 20 squares after a drone crashed on Moscow's Krasnopresnenskaya embankment.
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