A war effort is never quite comprehensive till you carry the attack, or at least the threat of it, to the opponent’s civil populace. That was exactly the objective when the Americans launched their first attack on Japanese towns with bombers taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier to hit Japanese cities.
Russian officials said on Tuesday (September 10) they shot down at least 15 drones around Moscow overnight in a wave of attacks that set residential buildings on fire, killed a woman and forced more than 30 flights in the capital to be suspended.
The overnight drone attacks damaged at least two high-rise apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region, setting several flats on fire, Moscow’s governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Telegram.
A 46-year-old woman died and three people were injured in Ramenskoye, Vorobyov said.
The Ramenskoye district, some 50 kms (31 miles) southeast from the centre of Moscow, has a population of around quarter a million of people, according to official data.
Social media videos showed flames bursting out of windows of a multi-story residential building, saying that dozens of flats were damaged in the Ramenskoye district.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on the Telegram messaging app that at least 15 drones were downed around Moscow, with emergency crews dispatched to several sites across the region and near the Zhukovo airport and to the Domodedovo district – home to one of the Moscow’s largest airports.
Russia‘s RIA agency reported that both the Domodedovo and Zhukovo airports were closed for air traffic following the suspension of more than 30 domestic and international flights there and at other airports that serve the Russian capital.
Efforts to rein in both parties and get them to sit across the table for a possible solution, have failed so far. An Indian initiative, with the Indian PM having already visited both countries, is yet find a purchase.
Team BharatShakti
(With Inputs from Reuters)
