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Russia has launched an air attack on Kyiv as Ukraine claims a drone attack in central Moscow amid rising tensions.

“On the outskirts of Kyiv, air defence systems are being engaged (in repelling the attack),” Serhiy Popko, head of the Ukrainian capital’s military administration said on Telegram.

Ukraine on Monday claimed a drone attack in central Moscow that hit buildings including one close to Russia’s Defence Ministry’s headquarters.

It came one day after Kyiv vowed to retaliate for a Russian missile strike in the city of Odesa.

A Ukrainian defence source told AFP that the drone attack was a “special operation” by Ukraine’s military intelligence.

Nobody was hurt in the attack, of which a senior Ukrainian official said there would be more.

Russia said that it could warrant “tough retaliatory measures” calling the attack a brazen act of terror.

“We regard what happened as yet another use of terrorist methods and intimidation of the civilian population,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry added.

AFP reporters at the scene of the strike near the ministry saw a two-storey building with its roof torn apart by the impact of the drone’s crash.

“It was 3:39am. The house really shook,” said Vladimir, 70, who lives nearby.

“It is scandalous that a Ukrainian drone almost flew into the defence ministry.”

The United States said it did not support attacks inside Russia during a White House press briefing on Monday.

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