MOSCOW. May 30 (Interfax) - Investigators have opened an inquiry into the crash of drones on buildings in Moscow in the early hours of Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Telegram.
"Investigators of the Investigative Committee are probing the crash of unmanned aerial vehicles on buildings in Moscow," the committee said.
"Persons involved in the crime are being identified," it said.
"Minor damage was caused" to several buildings in Moscow by falling drone debris, the committee said.
"Besides, several drones were shot down by Russian air defenses as they approached Moscow," it said.
"The preliminary information available indicates that no one was injured. The city's emergency services are working at the scene. Staff of investigative agencies of the Russian Investigative Committee's department for Moscow are also working at the site of the incident," it said.
Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, for his part, has ordered prosecutors of Moscow and the Moscow region to oversee "the investigation into the circumstances of the incidents in residential buildings in Moscow and the Moscow region."
"The incidents occurred in the early hours of May 30 in apartment buildings in Moscow on Atlasov Street, greater Moscow area, on Profsoyuznaya Street and on Leninsky Avenue. The apartment buildings sustained damage," the Prosecutor General's Office said.
In the Moscow region, "the incidents occurred 500 meters from the Ilyinskoye motorway in the town of Krasnogorsk and in the town of Odintsovo," it said.
Prosecutor of the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky administrative districts Nikolai Krasikov, Prosecutor of the Southwestern administrative district Maxim Kisilyov and Prosecutor of the Western administrative district Andrei Danilov are coordinating the activities of law enforcement agencies and security services at the scene in Moscow on Krasnov's orders.
Odintsovo Prosecutor Yevgeny Kunegin and Krasnogorsk Prosecutor Sergei Molochkov are working at the scene of the incident in the Moscow region.
The downed drones fell in the Krasnogorosk, Odintsovo and Istra districts of the Moscow region, according to information from Chairman of the State Duma's Information Policy Committee Alexander Khinshtein.
Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that "minor damage was caused to several buildings as a result of a drone attack early this morning" in Moscow. "Residents were evacuated from several sections of two residential buildings damaged after being hit by drones," he said on his Telegram channel. Two people in Moscow sought medical aid following the drone attack, but none of them required hospitalization, he said.
Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyev said that several drones were shot down in the Moscow region on Tuesday morning. "Residents of some districts of the Moscow region could hear the sounds of explosions this morning. Our air defenses are operating. Several drones were downed as they approached Moscow," Vorobyev said on his Telegram channel.
Emergency services told Interfax that several drones crashed in Moscow and the Moscow region early on Tuesday morning. Some of them hit apartment buildings. One of the drones crashed into the facade of a residential building on Atlasov Street in the town of Moskovsky, greater Moscow area, at the level of the 25th floor. Two other drones hit apartment buildings on Profsoyuznaya Street and on Leninsky Avenue in Moscow. Some windows were smashed in the residential buildings hit by drones. No one was seriously injured.