00:26Just around 1 a.m. Moscow time,
00:29residents near Mosfilmovskaya Street heard explosions, low-flying drones, then impact.
00:36The target? The house on Mosfilmovskaya, also known as Mosfilm Tower, a 52-story modernist luxury
00:45skyscraper in western Moscow, home to affluent residents sitting close to foreign embassies
00:50and Russia's famous film studios. A Ukrainian drone, or debris from one intercepted mid-air,
00:57slammed into approximately the 36th floor. The damage is significant. Walls blown out,
01:04the glass façade shattered, debris dangling from upper floors and scattered on the street below.
01:09Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanen confirmed the strike and said no fatalities or injuries were reported.
01:16Russian air defenses downed at least two other drones approaching the capital the same night.
01:21Sheremetyevov airport briefly disrupted operations. But one got through. On the 36th floor of a
01:30building six kilometers from Vladimir Putin's front door. Let's put that distance in perspective.
01:36Six kilometers. That's roughly the distance you could walk in about an hour. In a city the size of
01:42Moscow, with layered air defense systems, radar coverage, electronic warfare, a Ukrainian drone
01:49reached that close to the center of Russian power. And it's not just the Kremlin. Mossfilm tower sits near
01:56the Russian defense ministry, near embassies, near infrastructure that matters. Russia has called
02:02it a terrorist attack on civilians. And technically it is a residential building. But Ukraine has made clear
02:08its calculus. If Russian missiles can hit Kyiv apartment blocks, Ukrainian drones can reach
02:14Moscow skyscrapers. This is deliberate, calculated, and deeply symbolic. Now, here's what makes this
02:22strike land differently than the dozens before it. Five days. That's how long Russia has until May 9th,
02:30the single most important date on Russia's national calendar. The day Moscow fills Red Square with tanks,
02:36missiles, and soldiers marching past the Kremlin in a celebration of Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany.
02:43Putin uses Victory Day like no other event. It's propaganda. It's power. It's the image of an unbreakable Russia
02:51projected to the world. And Ukraine just put a hole in a skyscraper visible from half the city five days
02:58before
02:59that parade. Was this an attempt to reach Putin himself? Almost certainly not in a literal sense. His movements are
03:06among the
03:06most guarded secrets in the world. But psychologically, politically, this is Ukraine planting a flag
03:13inside Russia's sense of invulnerability. No deaths, enormous damage, five days before Victory Day.
03:21Ukraine didn't need to kill anyone tonight. It just needed Moscow to look up.
03:26Ukraine will continue to kill anyone tonight.
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