"Tough retaliation measures": Russia responds to attacks on Moscow and Crimea

The Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Russian Federation has said it will take "tough retaliation measures" in light of the recent attacks on Moscow and Russian-occupied Crimea.

Source: statement released by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Russian Federation

Quote: "The Russian side retains the right to undertake tough retaliation measures."

Details: The Russian Foreign Ministry claimed that the attack on Moscow on the morning of 24 July was only an "attempted attack" carried out by "two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles" (UAVs). It also claimed that Russian electronic warfare systems prevented the attack, causing the UAVs to crash. The Foreign Ministry said the drones caused no serious damage, adding that the two buildings that did sustain damage were non-residential.

The Foreign Ministry also said a "helicopter-type drone without an explosive device" crashed at a cemetery in Moscow’s Zelenogradsky district on 24 July.

The Russian ministry also claimed it "prevented the Kyiv regime’s attempt to attack facilities in Crimea with 17 drones" on 24 July; according to the statement it issued, Russian air defence and electronic warfare systems destroyed all of those drones, though an "ammunition depot in the Dzhankoi district was struck".

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Ukraine was responsible for the drone attack on Crimea.

Background:

• Early on 24 July, Russian media and Telegram channels reported that drones have attacked the Russian capital, damaging a building next to the Russian Defence Ministry. Another drone hit the Leroy Merlin business centre in Moscow.
• A source in the security and defence sector told Ukrainska Pravda that the Moscow drone attack was a special operation by the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. 
• Also on 24 July, Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-appointed puppet leader of Crimea, reported a strike on a Russian ammunition storage point in the Dzhankoi district, claiming that 11 drones were shot down over Crimea.
• Another ammunition depot in Crimea was struck on 22 July in the Krasnohvardiiske district, causing ammunition to detonate.
• On 19 July, an explosion caused a fire at an ammunition depot in Crimea’s Kirovske district, with ammunition detonating over the course of the next several days.

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