– the first “swallows” of a possibly restless night arrived in the evening from Muscovite Pavel, who at 18:20 noticed a large drone flying over the Warsaw Highway to the west of the capital;
– the following message from Orekhovo-Zuevsky city. At 20:53, a resident of Likino-Dulyovo saw a gray UAV 100 meters above the ground;
– 20:55 – an aircraft-type drone was spotted over Tushino, flying towards the north of the city;
– at 20:58 a resident of the house on the street. Izvarinskaya sees a strange ball floating across the sky towards Vnukovo airport;
– another woman from the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district reports to the police that at 21:20 over the village of Vereya she saw a small plane with a silver propeller on the front, heading from Shatura towards the capital;
– at 21:46 a message is received from citizen B., who lives on the Barracks settlement in Moscow, she saw a sparkling drone right above the house at an altitude of 150m;
– a man immediately sees 2 aircraft-type UAVs above the Northern River Station, slowly flying towards Sheremetyevo, time – 22:29;
– 10 minutes later, at 22:39, a call is received from the Department of Internal Affairs on duty in the Khamovniki district – an eyewitness reports two drones over houses on Kholzunov Lane, hovering towards Moscow City. After another 10 minutes, the information is duplicated in the Presnensky district police department;
– at 23:05 the quadcopter is seen in Kommunarka, heading to Butovo;
– A UAV with a wingspan of at least 6 meters is noticed in the air at 23:12 by a resident of a house on Lukhmanovskaya Street, the device flies from Moscow to the region at the height of a 20-story building;
– a minute later another message about a drone; coordinates – Zatonnaya Street, no cargo is visible under the belly of the drone;
– 23:23 – an aircraft-type aircraft was spotted in the microdistrict. Kupchino, Balashikha, again flies from Moscow to the region, this time an eyewitness clearly hears the sound of the engine;
– an interesting call comes into the duty room at 23:58. Journalist of the literary magazine “Otechestvennye zapiski” Alexander Ognivtsev states on his mobile phone that right now he was walking along Sorge Street and photographing the night moon. At some point, the lens picked out an unknown oblong-shaped object with transverse stripes in the sky. Ognivtsev doesn’t know what it was, but it was something heading towards Krasnopresnenskaya embankment;
– 00:38 – Northern River Station again, but this time the woman sees two copters flashing in different colors at the level of the 20th floor;
– at 2:48 the active phase begins. Moskvich Denis B. in his apartment on the street. Yeletskoy hears the sounds of a UAV – this is how two-stroke engines work, and reports this to the police. How many pieces he cannot say;
– resident of the house on the street. Vatutina wakes up at 3:05 am from the loud noise of the propellers, looks out the window and sees the silhouette of an airplane;
– at 3:10, employees of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Security”, Gorki-10 village, Odintsovo district, observe a UAV flying along the Minsk highway, most likely it will be shot down by air defense systems;
– 3:24 – arrival at the Tower of Ministries of the IQ quarter;
According to a source of the Cheka-OGPU, from 00:00 o’clock. Until the moment of the strike at 3:20, Moscow duty units received only 12 reports of a UAV flying towards the city center.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”
