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<\/p>\nA HUGE explosion rocked Moscow today after a suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drone blasted a building just three miles from the Kremlin. <\/p>\n
Footage showed flames and a column of black smoke rising from the Moscow Expo Centre after the strike. <\/p>\n
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The building sits on the edge of the city\u2019s skyscraper zone which was previously targeted by Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Video showed a massive explosion and flash as the drone hit the low building – which is close to main White House office building of the Russian government.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All airports in the city were temporarily closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin claimed air defences had "destroyed" the drone and the falling debris caused "no significant damage" to the building.<\/p>\n
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But footage showed an explosion at the Expo Centre, around one mile from the British Embassy in Moscow.<\/p>\n
And pictures showed a huge hole in the side of the building. <\/p>\n
According to reports, one of the outside walls of the centre – used for conferences and conventions – had partially collapsed.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said the attack sparked "a powerful explosion". <\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n A local resident said: "We live in the tower opposite, on the 68th floor.\u00a0We heard a bang and saw a flash.\u00a0<\/p>\n "At first we thought it had hit the Federation Tower, but it turned out to be the Expocentre. <\/p>\n "We could see a column of smoke from our windows."<\/p>\n Another eyewitness said: "We were sitting on the embankment at the time – we didn't see the drone itself, but we heard a very loud noise, then smoke was billowing from the other side."<\/p>\n The Russian defence ministry said the 4am drone strike was "another terrorist attack using an unmanned aerial vehicle against targets in Moscow".<\/p>\n It said: "The UAV changed its flight trajectory after being hit by air defence weapons and crashed into a non-residential building near Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment in Moscow.\u00a0<\/p>\n "There were no casualties or fires."<\/p>\n Initial reports suggested the drone had come close to the 1,226ft Federation Tower – the Russian capital\u2019s tallest tower.<\/p>\n Moscow has been repeatedly targeted by drone strikes this year as Putin's war in Ukraine lands on his doorstep. <\/p>\n In July, two separate drones crashed into a skyscraper just a few hundred metres from the Expo Centre.<\/p>\n At the time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the war was "returning to the territory of Russia" and it was an "inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process".<\/p>\n Hours before the latest strike in Moscow, \u00a0a Ukrainian sea drone was wiped out during an attempted attack on Russia's ships in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n Russia's defence ministry said: "The unmanned boat of the enemy, without reaching the target\u2026 was destroyed by fire from onboard weapons of the Black Sea Fleet ships."<\/p>\n The incident involved the patrol ships Inquisitive and Vasily Bykov.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/NA-sam-asghari-comp.jpg\")
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