Two people were killed and six injured after Russian officials said a large overnight Ukrainian drone strike hit the Moscow region, sparking fires in homes, a warehouse and damage to an oil refinery while disrupting airport operations.
Andrei Vorobyev, governor of the Moscow region, described the assault as "massive" and reported that 249 drones had been shot down, with fires in several residential buildings. Vorobyev said a 44-year-old woman died in Sofyino when a drone struck a three-storey block, and an elderly man was killed after a private house in the Orekhovo-Zuevo district was hit.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said a drone struck a building near one of the city's boulevards and that a facility at an oil refinery suffered damage. He posted that 450 drones targeting Moscow had been intercepted in what he called an "unprecedented attack." Video clips circulating on social platforms show explosions and a burning warehouse, though that footage has not been independently verified.
The capital's largest airport, Sheremetyevo, warned passengers of "temporary restrictions," while Vnukovo halted all arrivals and departures. The flight limits followed the reported damage to fuel-handling infrastructure and the wider disruption to air traffic in the aftermath of the night assault.
The strikes come amid a pattern of intensified attacks by both sides on energy production, transport links and logistics hubs. Ukrainian and Russian operations have both struck power and transport targets in recent days, and the episode follows separate Russian strikes on Saturday that Ukrainian officials said killed seven people, including two children, in the Kyiv and Sumy regions.
Kyiv regional head Tymur Tkachenko said a mother and her two small children were killed in Fastiv, and Sumy official Oleh Hryhorov reported four people died when a Russian drone hit their car. The exchanges of strikes occurred despite a social media claim by US President Donald Trump that the two sides had agreed not to target such infrastructure.
Russian authorities continue to assess damage and casualties, and airport restrictions remain in force as emergency crews respond to fires and wreckage. The differing tallies of intercepted drones reported by regional and city officials underline the difficulty of producing a single account while operations and investigations are ongoing.
