Three people were killed overnight Saturday and at least a dozen were injured in a wide-scale drone strike on Moscow and the surrounding region, Russian authorities said.
The attack was the largest and most deadly by Ukraine on the Russian capital region since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and it showed Kyiv’s increasing ability to carry out long-range strikes and penetrate air defenses.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Sunday that more than 120 drones were intercepted near Moscow in the previous 24 hours, and Russia’s Defense Ministry said that 556 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia overnight.
The deaths and the increasing vulnerability of the capital region — including in areas where Moscow residents often visit their country homes and cabins on weekends — were likely to increase pressure on Putin, who is confronting rising public frustration over the war, now in its fifth year.
One woman was killed and another was trapped under rubble after a drone hit a house in Khimki, a suburb north of the capital, Moscow Region Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said.
A man and woman were killed in the village of Pogorelki in the Mytishchi district, also north of the capital, when a drone hit a house under construction, local authorities said.
Four people were also injured when a drone hit an apartment building and six homes in Dedovsk, a town northwest of Moscow.
Last week, after a brief ceasefire, Russia hammered Kyiv with airstrikesthat killed at least 24 people when an apartment complex was hit in the Ukrainian capital.
On Saturday, Russian bombing in Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions killed two people and injured 23 others, Ukrainian officials said.
Anastacia Galouchka in Kyiv contributed to this report.
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