By Pavel Polityuk and Max Hunder
KYIV&nbsp;(Reuters) - Drones hit several buildings in Moscow on Tuesday causing minor damage and forcing some people to evacuate their homes, Russian officials&nbsp;said, while Russia launched another wave of flying bombs on the Ukrainian capital&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;killing one person.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the&nbsp;apparent attack on Moscow, which one pro-Kremlin television commentator&nbsp;said, without citing sources, involved about 25 unmanned aircraft.
The incident comes weeks after two drones exploded over the Kremlin - an attack Russia has blamed on Ukraine although&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;has denied responsibility - and follows intense Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian cities this month.
Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region,&nbsp;said&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Telegram&nbsp;messaging&nbsp;channel that several drones were shot down on their&nbsp;approach to Moscow. Two people sought medical assistance and none were seriously injured, Moscow&nbsp;Mayor&nbsp;Sergei Sobyanin&nbsp;said.
Russia's RIA state news agency reported that some residents of a building on Profsoyuznaya Street in the city's south were being evacuated. Reuters was not able to independently verify the reports.
In&nbsp;Kyiv, Ukrainian defence forces&nbsp;said&nbsp;they shot down more than 20 drones during a fresh wave of Russian air strikes on Tuesday.
Kyiv's military administration&nbsp;said&nbsp;unlike most previous raids, the attack involved only Iranian-made Shahed drones and no missiles.
"A massive attack!"&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;Mayor&nbsp;Vitali&nbsp;Klitschko&nbsp;said&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Telegram&nbsp;messaging&nbsp;app. "Do not leave shelters."
One person died and four were injured when debris from a destroyed Russian projectile hit a high-rise apartment building sparking a fire, Ukrainian officials&nbsp;said.
Two upper floors of the building were destroyed and there could still be people under the rubble,&nbsp;Kyiv's military administration officials&nbsp;said&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Telegram&nbsp;messaging&nbsp;app.
Photos from&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;officials and Reuters witnesses showed flames engulfing the top floors of the building and smoke rising from the roof.
"The attack was massive, came from different directions, in several waves," Serhiy Popko, head of&nbsp;Kyiv's military administration,&nbsp;said&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Telegram.
Debris hit several other districts of the capital including the historic Podil and Pecherskyi neighbourhoods. It was not immediately known how many drones Russia launched and there was no immediate comment from Moscow.
Russia has repeatedly attacked the Ukrainian capital in May using a combination of drones and missiles, mostly at night, in an&nbsp;apparent attempt to undermine Ukrainians' will to fight after more than 15 months of war.
Tuesday's strikes were Russia's 17th air assault on the capital this month and came after the city was attacked twice on Monday, including an unusual daytime strike.
"These missile attacks of a fairly dense frequency are aimed specifically at exhausting both our air defence forces and our physical and moral strength,"&nbsp;said&nbsp;Natalya Gumenyuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's southern military command.
Ukrainian officials&nbsp;said&nbsp;most of the drones and missiles fired on Sunday and Monday had been shot down and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised U.S.-supplied Patriot anti-missile defences.
"When Patriots in the hands of Ukrainians ensure a 100% interception rate of any Russian missile, terror will be defeated," Zelenskiy&nbsp;said&nbsp;in his nightly video address on Monday.
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The air attacks come as Ukraine prepares a counter-offensive backed with Western weapons to try to drive Russian occupiers out of territory seized since Moscow launched what it calls its "special military operation" in February 2022.
"With these constant attacks, the enemy seeks to keep the civilian population in deep psychological tension,"&nbsp;said&nbsp;Serhiy Popko, the head of&nbsp;Kyiv's military administration.
On the eastern frontlines, Russian paratroops and motorised units were replacing Wagner mercenary units in the eastern city of Bakhmut, according to Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokesperson for the eastern group of Ukrainian Forces.
Moscow&nbsp;said&nbsp;it invaded Ukraine to "denazify" its neighbour and protect Russian speakers. Western opponents say the invasion is an imperialist land grab in which tens of thousands have been killed, millions uprooted and cities reduced to ruins.
Russia says it is open to resuming stalled peace talks with&nbsp;Kyiv&nbsp;and has welcomed mediation efforts from Brazil and China.
But a top aide to Zelenskiy&nbsp;said&nbsp;Kyiv's peace plan, envisaging the full withdrawal of Russian troops, was the only way to end the war.
"There cannot be a Brazilian peace plan, a Chinese peace plan, a South African peace plan when you are talking about the war in Ukraine," chief diplomatic adviser Ihor Zhovkva told Reuters.
Another Zelenskiy aide, Mykhailo Podolyak, wrote on Twitter that any post-war settlement should include a demilitarised zone of 100-120 km (62-75 miles) inside Russia along the border.
The European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell,&nbsp;said&nbsp;he believed Russia would not want to negotiate while it was still trying to win the war.
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(Additional reporting by Olena Harmash, Pavel Polityuk and Lidia Kelly; Writing by Stephen Coates; Editing by Ron Popeski, Lincoln Feast and Michael Perry)

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