DRAMATIC footage shows the moment of a massive explosion after a fresh drone strike on a skyscraper in Moscow.
The overnight hit on the IQ Building in the business district called Moscow City was the second strike in two nights.
The government building was previously damaged after a strike in the early hours of Sunday.
CCTV footage from the tower,just miles from the Kremlin, shows smoke billowing in the sky following the explosion around 1pm.
Major Moscow airport Vnukovo – used by Russian officials and VIPs – was temporarily closed.
Russian officials bizarrely claimed the drone had been jammed by electronic warfare before smashing into the same tower as a UAV on 30 July.
There were no immediate reports of casualties although ambulances were at the scene.
An incoming drone was filmed over Odintsovo after midnight.
Two drones were shot down in Odintsovo and Naro-Fominsk, according to the Moscow authorities.
Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said the facade of the IQ tower was damaged.
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He said: "One flew into the same tower at the Moscow City complex hit previously.
“The facade has been damaged on the 21st floor. Glazing was destroyed over 150 square metres."
He added that emergency services were working at the scene and that there were no casualties.
The Defence Ministry said: “Two Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed in the air by air defence systems over the territory of Odintsovo and Naro-Fominsk districts of Moscow region.
“Another drone was suppressed by electronic warfare and, having lost control, crashed on the territory of the Moscow City non-residential building complex.”
Russia's defence ministry said in a statement the attempted attack by Kyiv was thwarted.
It said that two drones had been downed in suburbs west of the city centre.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ukrainian attacks on Moscow and other Russian targets were "acts of desperation" and that Kremlin was taking all measures possible to protect against strikes.
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