Russia reserves the right to “severe retaliation” after drone attacks attributed to Ukraine targeting the capital Moscow and the annexed Crimean peninsula on Monday, Russian diplomacy said in a statement.

Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of RussiaPhoto: Oleksandr Shcherbak / TASS / Profimedia

“We believe that these events represent a new use of terrorist methods by the political and military leadership of Ukraine to intimidate the civilian population,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Monday, News.ro reports.

“Behind the shameless actions of Ukrainian neo-Nazis is the desire of the West to witness the aggravation of the situation (conflict in Ukraine),” accuses Russian diplomacy, which promises to “find and punish” all those responsible.

“These attacks had no military sense. We condemn this new crime of the Kyiv regime and call on international organizations to give it a proper assessment,” added the ministry headed by Serhiy Lavorv.

According to the Russian army, two Ukrainian drones were neutralized and crashed without casualties: one near the Russian Ministry of Defense and the other in a commercial center in the south of Moscow.

According to Russian Governor Serhii Asksyonov, in Crimea, a Ukrainian drone on Monday also shot down an ammunition depot in the Dzhankoy district in the north of the annexed peninsula.

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