RUSSIAN authorities say that three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours of this morning, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of its four airports.

The Russian Defence Ministry referred to the incident as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kiev regime” and said that three drones targeted the city. 

It has referred to previous strikes on Moscow as terrorist attacks, though Russian forces have bombarded Ukraine’s capital Kiev repeatedly.

The drone strike was the fourth such attack on the capital region this month and the third this week.

One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defence systems and two others were jammed. 

Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.

Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. 

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the attack “insignificantly damaged” the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district.

A security guard was injured, Russia’s state news agency Tass reported.

No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the airspace over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. 

The drone attack came as news broke of a Ukraine-organised peace summit in early August in the Red Sea port of Jeddah, according to an official who spoke on the basis of anonymity. 

Around 30 countries are said to have agreed to join Ukraine at the summit. These include Brazil, India, South Africa and the United States, the official said — but planning for the event is being overseen by Kiev and Russia is not invited.

Details regarding the summit remain in flux but the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on it, said that the talks would take place this weekend.

News of the summit followed a visit to the kingdom by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday.

Arab nations have remained neutral since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, in part over their military and economic ties to Moscow.