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How life has changed in a Moscow suburb where Ukrainian drones hit the same apartment building twice

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A Ukrainian drone struck the same high-rise in Kotelniki, outside Moscow, for the second time on September 20, hitting nearly the same spot as a June 18 strike and destroying balconies on four floors. Neither attack killed anyone, but residents describe lasting fear; one mother, Olga, spent hours in the lobby with her toddler listening to explosions and says she has been on sedatives since.

Residents are split on how to cope. Olga has stopped reading the news and hopes the attacks will taper off now that the nearby oil refinery, the apparent target, has been hit; her neighbor Ruslan instead tracks every development and expresses confidence in Russian air defenses despite counting roughly 40 explosions on the night of the strike.

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