Moscow drone attack: What we know about the strikes

Russia says Ukraine has launched "a violent drone attack" connected Moscow, with respective buildings damaged.

It is the archetypal clip Moscow has been truthful heavy targeted successful a azygous operation, but Ukraine denies carrying retired the strikes.

The Russian subject says 8 drones were utilized successful the strikes.

It says, 5 were changeable down and 3 stopped with awesome jamming exertion - causing them to suffer power and miss their targets.

By piecing unneurotic ocular clues successful video footage - specified arsenic gathering exteriors and parks - BBC Verify has confirmed the determination of 3 drone strikes successful south-west Moscow:

We person besides verified footage connected the occidental outskirts of Moscow. It shows an unidentified drone flying implicit roofs successful a colony wherever affluent Muscovites live.

"We don't cognize what they were targeting yet, a proportionality were intercepted by aerial defence systems, but immoderate struck targets," Jack Watling, an adept connected onshore warfare, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.

Russia said it changeable down 5 of the drones successful the Moscow portion with the Pantsir-S surface-to-air rocket system. This strategy appeared to person been installed successful cardinal Moscow earlier this year.

There was archetypal online speculation that the Ukrainian-manufactured UJ-22 drone had been used.

However, we cognize the UJ-22 was not the drone pictured successful respective videos we checked. These drones person a antithetic wing, instrumentality presumption and fuselage design.

Instead, the drone pictured has a abbreviated acceptable of wings astatine the beforehand and larger ones to the rear. The unconventional plan has prompted immoderate to wrongly reason that the craft was flying backwards, oregon that the footage was reversed.

We showed this video and images of the debris to drone specializer Steve Wright, of the University of the West of England, who said the helping span suggests a imaginable scope of "at slightest tens, adjacent hundreds, of kilometres."

"However, arsenic with the Kremlin onslaught connected 3 May, I expect that it was launched overmuch person than that for tactical reasons," Mr Wright added.

Elsewhere, a commercialized level flying implicit Moscow - a Cessna 172 - has been wrongly identified arsenic a drone connected the Telegram societal messaging platform, fashionable successful Russia.

Throughout the war, some Russia and Ukraine person utilized commercially-sourced drones arsenic good arsenic established subject designs.

BBC Verify is moving to place the nonstop benignant of drones utilized successful these reported attacks.

However, astir of the suspected strikes person focussed connected the Bryansk and Belgorod regions successful Russia adjacent the north-eastern border, arsenic good arsenic successful Crimea.

Oil facilities, airfields and vigor infrastructure person each been targeted.

Layla Guest, an expert astatine Sibylline information consultancy, says: "Ukrainian forces volition highly apt prioritise targeting lipid refineries, arsenic good arsenic railway infrastructure and wider Russian logistics, to origin maximum disruption arsenic portion of their strategy up of the impending counter-offensive."

Additional reporting by: Daniele Palumbo, Paul Brown and Tural Ahmedzade