USA TODAY
The Kremlin is comparing Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow’s financial district that have caused minor damage and no deaths with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed thousands in the United States.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the Soloviev Live TV channel that, like Lower Manhattan, the Moscow City district is a civilian site hosting offices and residential buildings “that have nothing to do with the military.” Some of the buildings targeted by the drones did include defensive ministry offices, however.
“The 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers caused an enormous number of casualties, but the methods were the same,” she said. “We are seeing the same picture now, as if it is repeating itself.”
Earlier Tuesday, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said a skyscraper in central Moscow was damaged by a drone attack for the second time in 48 hours. Sobyanin said the facade was damaged, but no injuries were reported.
Russia has accused Kyiv of the attacks. Ukrainian officials have not directly addressed the incidents, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after Sunday’s attack that it was “inevitable, natural and absolutely fair” to bring the war to Russian territory. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak posted Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter, that “#Moscow is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war, which, in turn, will soon finally move to the territory of the “authors of the war” to collect all their debts…
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