Moscow airports suspend flights for second time in two days as drone hits building under construction in city centre
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A drone hit a building under construction in central Moscow early on Wednesday, the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, has said. The Russian military downed a second drone over the western part of the Moscow region, he said on his Telegram channel.
A loud explosion was heard in the capital’s central district on Wednesday morning, a short while after flights were suspended at the city’s airports, Russia’s RIA news agency reported. The central district is 5km from the Kremlin.
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