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Russia Boosts Air Defenses Around Moscow Amid Drone-Strike Fears

  • Photos of deployments appear in social media from Moscow
  • Pantsir systems deployed in and around capital after bases hit
Pantsir systems move through Red Square during a Victory Day military parade.

Pantsir systems move through Red Square during a Victory Day military parade.

Photographer: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

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Bloomberg News

Russian authorities have deployed air-defense installations in and around Moscow after several drone attacks hit the country’s heartland.

Local residents posted photos in social media of cranes lifting Pantsir systems to rooftops in downtown Moscow, as well as defenses installed in the western suburbs, near President Vladimir Putin’s official residence. The images couldn’t immediately be confirmed.