Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Attack on Moscow Region; Russia Reports Six Dead

Ukraine launched one of its most extensive drone assaults of the war, targeting the Moscow region overnight and resulting in at least six fatalities, according to Moscow's mayor. The sustained attack saw hundreds of drones heading towards the capital area between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that 600 drones were aimed at the Moscow region, with Russian air defenses destroying 201. Russian authorities stated that five people died in attacks on the southwestern city of Rostov and one in the Moscow region. Three individuals were wounded within Moscow's ring road and are receiving medical attention.

This escalation follows a recent intensification of Ukrainian long-range strikes deep inside Russia, targeting military installations, industrial facilities, and warehouses far from the front lines. The Kyiv Independent reported Ukrainian forces struck a warehouse belonging to online retail giant Wildberries and industrial sites in several Moscow region cities. Independent confirmation of the attack's full scale remains unavailable.

Meanwhile, Russian attacks continue to inflict casualties across Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that a missile strike on his hometown of Kryvyi Rih killed two people and injured 14. Another person died in Sumy. In the Zaporizhzhia region, a Russian strike on a residential home killed a man and a woman.

The heightened cross-border activity occurred as NATO countries bordering Ukraine faced their own drone incursions. A Spanish F-18 fighter jet operating on NATO duties shot down a drone over Romania early Sunday after it entered Romanian airspace from Moldova, near the Ukrainian border. Debris fell in an unpopulated area of Galati county. Romanian authorities have not identified the drone's origin. This incident follows a similar event on Friday, where an Italian Eurofighter shot down a foreign drone over Latvia.

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Wherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure.