* Drone in Moscow, reported attack near Crimea highlight war risks

* Soybeans rise for third session on U.S. dry weather forecast

* Corn edges higher

PARIS/SINGAPORE, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Chicago wheat rose by nearly 2% on Friday as a drone attack on Moscow and a reported Ukrainian sea strike near Crimea revived concerns over war disruption to massive Black Sea grain trade.

Soybeans rose for a third session to reach a two-week high as dry, warm weather forecast for the U.S. Midwest created worries about crop stress.

Corn edged higher.

A Ukrainian drone damaged a building in central Moscow on Friday, Russian officials said, while on Thursday two Russian war ships repelled a Ukrainian attack with an unmanned boat near Crimea, according to the Russian defence ministry.

Regular air strikes by Russia on Ukrainian grain since mid-July, when it pulled out of the U.N.-backed deal for Ukraine to export grain, and strikes by Kyiv on Russian targets, including along the Black Sea, have kept participants wary about disruption to exports.

"There has been an explosion in Moscow which is raising concerns over wheat supplies and supporting prices today," a Singapore-based grain trader in an international trading company said.

The incident near Crimea also unsettled the market by suggesting the risk of military escalation affecting Russia's massive wheat exports, traders said.

The wheat market was also monitoring news from India, where sources said this week that the country is in talks with Russia to import wheat in order to boost supplies and curb food inflation.

The most-active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) was up 1.8% at $6.26 a bushel by 1119 GMT.

CBOT soybeans added 1.1% to $13.44-1/4 a bushel, after earlier touching their highest since Aug. 2.

Corn rose 0.5% to $4.88-1/4 a bushel.

Weather forecasts showed little rain and warm temperatures for the rest of August in the U.S. Midwest. Soybeans are seen as more vulnerable than corn at this stage of summer.

The shift in weather has helped grain markets recover after recent rain weighed on prices, pushing corn to its lowest since December 2020 earlier this week.

"Just as it looked as if it had turned all plain sailing for U.S. corn and soybean farmers ... the weather outlook has turned more hostile again," consultancy CRM Agri said in a note.

Weather risks have countered pressure from outside markets as investors worry about risks to China's economy. (Reporting by Gus Trompiz in Paris and Naveen Thukral in Singapore; Editing by Rashmi Aich and Mark Potter)