Russia announces that it has foiled a Ukrainian drone attack targeting Moscow

Russia said in the night of Sunday to Monday to Monday to have thwarted an attack on Ukrainian drones which aimed Moscow, a few days before the celebrations of May 9 marking victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It is not the first time that the Russian capital is the target of Ukrainian operations of this type, even if they remain rare.

The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobianinen, said on Telegram that air defense had “postponed an attack of four flying drones in the direction of Moscow“Without doing or”damage or victims».

This Ukrainian drone raid occurs a few days before the Military Parade of May 9 on the Red Square, which must assist Chinese President Xi Jinping, his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and other partners and allies of Moscow.

A three -day truce

The commemoration of victory against Nazi Germany just 80 years ago, on May 9, is at the heart of the patriotic story of the Kremlin which ensures that the armed conflict against Ukraine is an extension of that against Berlin during the Second World War.

On the occasion of the celebrations of May 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a three -day truce to Ukraine – from May 8 to 10 – in order to, according to him, test the arrangement of kyiv to make peace. But the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he will not “not believedThat Russia would respect this truce.

Separate discussions between Moscow and kyiv, led by Washington, have been extended for more than two months and are struggling, for the time being, to achieve results to find a way out of the conflict triggered by the Russian attack of Ukraine in February 2022.