Ukrainian forces carried out an attack involving nearly 600 drones on Moscow on Sunday, with Russia responding with missile strikes on Kyiv that killed three people and injured 12.
According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the Russian capital’s air defense system intercepted more than 600 drones heading toward Moscow, while approximately 200 of them were shot down.
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For his part, the governor of the Moscow Region, Andrei Vorobyov, said it was “one of the largest drone attacks in recent years,” adding that six people were injured in the area.
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A massive explosion at a Wildberries logistics complex near Moscow overnight, as Russia faced another major wave of Ukrainian drones.
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One of the drones even caused a fire at a Wildberries warehouse, the e-commerce company that has been repeatedly targeted by Ukraine recently; since mid-July, Kyiv has struck approximately 20 of the company’s warehouses and buildings.
Hundreds of drones targeted Moscow on Sunday as Russia launched missile strikes that killed three people and wounded more than a dozen in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, officials on both sides said
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In Ukraine, Russian missile strikes killed two people in the Zaporizhzhia region, while another person was killed in Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. More than 20 people were injured in Kyiv, Brovary, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, and the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian forces also struck two industrial facilities in Kryvyi Rih, as announced on Telegram by the head of the local defense council, Oleksandr Vilkul.
Source: Proto Thema
