Ukraine Launches Massive 600-Drone Attack on Moscow Region
Nighttime Drone Swarm Targets Moscow Region
Kyiv launched one of its largest drone operations against the Russian capital, deploying 620 unmanned aerial vehicles in a massive nighttime onslaught that struck industrial zones and sparked widespread fires, according to reports from regional authorities and international monitors.
The extensive air assault caused multiple casualties on Russian soil. Moscow regional governor Andrey Vorobyov stated on Telegram that a strike in the Novoselki industrial zone outside the capital killed five people and wounded six others. Plumes of thick smoke rose over the targeted sector as emergency crews responded to secondary blazes. Further north, Leningrad regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko reported that a separate drone impact damaged a warehouse near Krasny Bor, injuring one person.
Intensifying Cross-Border Logistics Strikes
The scale of the bombardment highlighted an intensifying campaign of long-range strikes by Ukrainian forces targeting logistics hubs and industrial infrastructure inside Russia. Over recent weeks, Kyiv has repeatedly focused its drones on distribution and warehouse networks belonging to the Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries. According to regional officials, these cross-border operations routinely involve hundreds of drones launched nightly, acting as a direct counterweight to persistent Russian aerial barrages against Ukrainian population centers.
Deadly Aerial Bombardments Hit Sumy and Mykolaiv
The overnight air war also inflicted heavy casualties in Ukraine. In the northeastern city of Sumy, Russian guided aerial bomb strikes hit civilian infrastructure, killing two children aged five and ten along with an elderly woman. Oleg Grygorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration, confirmed that rescue workers recovered the bodies of the children from beneath the rubble of a destroyed residential building after six bombs struck the area. A separate attack in the southern port city of Mykolaiv killed an 89-year-old woman.
Black Sea Cargo Vessels Come Under Fire
Simultaneously, military officials in Moscow claimed success in targeting Ukrainian maritime logistics. The Russian Defence Ministry stated that its forces hit four cargo vessels linked to the Ukrainian military, including two dry cargo ships docked in Mykolaiv and Pivdennyi, alongside a vehicle parts plant and port terminal in Chornomorsk. Footage from the Black Sea region showed smoke billowing from the bow of a cargo vessel named the Nadezhda following an overnight strike off the coast of Novorossiysk, which local media attributed to a swarm of up to seven Ukrainian drones. Independent verification of the maritime damage remains limited.