Two German nationals were detained on Thursday evening for launching a drone over the Kremlin, the Interfax news agency reported Friday, citing unidentified sources in the law-enforcement authorities.
The pair planned to post a video of the Kremlin recorded by the drone in their blog, the report said. They were arrested near the Kremlin's Vodovzvodnaya Tower. Administrative charges were brought against one for violating air space regulations.
Drones have recently been involved in a series of incidents in Russia. In late July employees of a prison hospital in the northern Republic of Komi detained a man trying to launch a radio-controlled drone from an adjacent restricted territory into the hospital.
The drone was intended to carry a cargo of banned goods, including four cell phones, chargers and a battery, three packs of cards, and four packets of yeast – used by inmates to ferment alcoholic drinks.
The incident followed a similar case reported in the Magadan region of Russia's Far East a day earlier, when guards seized a drone that crashed inside a prison colony with a cargo of cell phones, according to the Federal Penitentiary Service.