Summary Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said nearly 370 drones were headed towards the Moscow region overnight but were intercepted by Russian air defence systems before reaching their intended targets
MOSCOW (Shahid Ghumman) – Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday that Ukraine launched one of its largest overnight drone attacks on Russian territory, with air defence systems intercepting and destroying 379 drones across multiple regions. The attacks left eight people dead and 86 others injured, according to Russian authorities.
The ministry said the drones were shot down over the regions of Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Smolensk, Ryazan, Kaluga, Tula, Tambov, Oryol, Lipetsk, Tver, Pskov, Voronezh, Rostov, Volgograd, Leningrad, Vladimir, the Moscow region, Krasnodar, occupied Crimea, as well as over the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said nearly 370 drones were headed towards the Moscow region overnight but were intercepted by Russian air defence systems before reaching their intended targets.
In the Tambov region, a Ukrainian drone strike hit a Wildberries logistics centre, killing seven people and injuring 25 others. Acting Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov said 22 of the injured were hospitalised, including eight in critical condition. Authorities later confirmed that the victims included four men and three women, while the injured comprised 16 men and nine women. A fire that broke out at the warehouse was later extinguished.
Drone attacks were also reported in the Moscow region cities of Noginsk and Elektrostal. Governor Andrei Vorobyov said a drone strike in Noginsk ignited a fire at an oil storage facility, prompting the evacuation of 22 women and seven newborns from a nearby maternity hospital as a precaution.
Another drone struck a Wildberries warehouse in Elektrostal, causing a fire that was later brought under control.
Russian officials later said one of the injured victims succumbed to wounds in hospital, raising the death toll in the Moscow region to one, while the number of injured there climbed to 61, including nine people in critical condition.
Russia's Investigative Committee said it had opened terrorism cases following the attacks on the logistics centres in the Tambov and Moscow regions.
Rodion Miroshnik, Russia's ambassador-at-large for alleged Ukrainian war crimes, claimed the Wildberries warehouse in Tambov had been deliberately targeted.
Russia's Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova condemned the attacks as acts of terrorism and alleged war crimes against civilians, saying appeals had been submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant United Nations bodies.
Elsewhere, authorities reported that around 30 drones were intercepted over the Rostov region, while additional drones were destroyed over Voronezh, Tula, Leningrad and several other regions.
In the Kursk region, a drone strike damaged an energy facility, cutting electricity to more than 46,000 consumers, while a drone crashed into a residential building in the Vladimir region, sparking a fire but causing no casualties.
The Russian Defence Ministry said emergency response teams were working across the affected regions, while damage assessments and recovery operations remained underway.
