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Earlier, Moscow's Vnukovo airport and Kaluga airport, some 150
km (95 miles) southwest of the capital, were temporarily shut
due to a suspected drone flight. They later reopened.
"... an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist
attack by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a facility in
Moscow was thwarted," the ministry said in a statement, adding
the drone was jammed and crashed in a forest west of Moscow.
"There are no casualties and no damage," it said.
Earlier, Vnukovo airport said it had been compelled to suspend
all flights "for reasons beyond the control of the airport",
adding that some flights had been redirected to other airports
in the Moscow region. It gave no further information.
Flights later resumed at both Vnukovo and Kaluga airports.
Drone air strikes deep inside Russia have increased since a
drone was destroyed over the Kremlin in early May. Civilian
areas of the capital were hit later in May and a Moscow business
district was targeted twice in three days earlier this month.
Russia said on Thursday that it had downed 13 Ukrainian drones
seeking to attack Moscow and also the largest city in Crimea,
which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
In recent days, Ukrainian remotely piloted boats, also referred
to as drones, have attacked a Russian fuel tanker and a navy
base at Russia's Novorossiysk port on the Black Sea.
Ukraine typically does not comment on who is behind attacks on
Russian territory, although officials have publicly expressed
satisfaction over them.
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