Pictures and videos were circulating on social media Thursday of air defense systems that were spotted on top of a couple Moscow buildings.
. The drone has a range of more than a thousand kilometers, equivalent to more than 620 miles, and a payload of roughly 165 pounds, according to the news outlet.for strikes last month on two airfields hundreds of miles inside Russia's border. Ukraine did not officially claim responsibility for the attacks, which Russia alleged had been carried out by drones.
Spoonts also noted that the bolstering of air defenses in Moscow could be"theater" on Russia's part, since they could frame the installations as a response to purported fears that Ukraine will attack the Russian capital.
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