On Sunday morning, law enforcement agencies received several reports of UAVs in the sky over Serpukhov – eyewitnesses reported that gray aircraft-type drones (exactly the same ones used for the attack today) were flying towards Moscow. The landmark is the M-4 Don highway, the altitude is low – no more than 500 meters.
Closer to Sunday evening, calls become more active again. An interesting message from a certain Alexander Savin – at approximately 20:30 in the area of Volgogradsky Prospekt in Moscow, he saw a quadcopter heading towards the center. At 22:12, drones are spotted at the height of a 30-story building in the Sergiev Posad area.
Already at midnight on July 24, an aircraft-type object with a wingspan of approximately 5 meters flying at an extremely low altitude (20 meters) was seen near the village of Markovo, Ramensky district. A local resident assures the duty officer on the phone that the object is slowly moving towards Moscow.
From 3 in the morning, the control panels of the 112 duty officers begin to explode. A flurry of calls in the Moscow region:
– 3:00 – Semenovskoye village, two UAVs flew towards Moscow
– 3:03 – drones are already over SNT Plant named after May 1
– 3:10 – residents of the village of Tatarinovo, Stupino district, shout into the receivers that they clearly see two drones flying towards the Kremlin
– 3:12 – the woman reports that they are flying along the M4 highway towards the airport in Domodedovo;
Moscow:
– at 3:33 drones fly over the Maryino metro station, a local resident reports this;
– 3:34 – The UAVs separate, a man living on the street calls. Borisov Ponds and says that he sees only one aircraft-type drone flying at the height of a 16-story building;
– 3:38 – the girl tells the duty officer that the UAV is flying along the floodplain of the Moscow River towards the Kremlin;
– 3:45 – explosion on Likhachev Avenue. A drone crashes into a business center under construction at the 19-20 floor level;
– 3:46 – explosion on Komsomolsky Avenue. The drone fell on a non-residential two-story building of the central military orchestra of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Windows were broken in the area, the streets were immediately blocked by special services, and the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Central Administrative District, Paukov, arrived on the scene.
Obviously, the targets of the attack were the Kremlin and Ministry of Defense facilities. But the UAVs flew not only to the city center. Thus, a helicopter-type drone without an explosive device was found on the territory of the central cemetery in Zelenograd. Just next to the crash site there is military unit 45603-3 – the Communications Center of the Main Command of the Navy (the communications center of the main command of the Navy), which provides control of the naval forces. According to a source from the Cheka-OGPU, this is not the first such incident and once again, electronic warfare forces managed to land a drone on approach in a secret military unit.
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