“The aim of the raid was probably to ferret out the Moscow air defenses and reveal their vulnerabilities,” he said.
This attack seems targeted at Russia’s political and economic elite.
CNN reports that “Some of the drones apparently hit or flew over Rublyovka, a prestigious suburban area in Moscow’s southwest where oligarchs, politicians, and top officials live in luxurious gated communities. The area is also very close to Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo residence where Russian President Putin is known to spend most of his time.”
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private military company Wagner turned the occasion into a rant against the Russian Ministry of Defense on social media.
“Why the f*** are you allowing these drones to hit Moscow?” he said. “The fact that they are flying to Rublyovka to your home, to hell with that! Let your houses burn.”
The mercenary military boss has been engaged in a months-long public feud with Russia’s military top brass. And he accused the Russian Defense Ministry of doing “absolutely nothing at all” to modernize Russia’s drones and drone defenses.
