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A large wave of more than 500 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia overnight, killing three people in the Moscow region, Russian authorities said Sunday.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 556 drones across more than a dozen regions, including Moscow, in one of the largest Ukrainian drone barrages of the conflict so far.
The ministry said interceptions took place across 14 Russian regions, as well as the Crimean Peninsula annexed from Ukraine, and the Black and Azov seas.
Moscow region Gov. Andrey Vorobyov said a woman was killed when a drone hit a private house, while two men also died in the early-morning attack.
“One more person is trapped under rubble,” Vorobyov said on Telegram.
He said air defense forces had been repelling a large-scale drone attack on the capital region since 3 a.m., adding that four people were wounded and infrastructure facilities were targeted.
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Inside Moscow, local authorities said air defense systems intercepted more than 80 drones overnight, wounding 12 people.
“Minor damage has been recorded at the sites where debris fell,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram.
Sobyanin said one strike wounded construction workers at a site near an oil and gas refinery.
“Refinery production has not been disrupted. Three residential buildings were damaged,” he added.
While the Moscow region is often targeted by drones, the city of Moscow, about 400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, is less frequently hit.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had vowed Friday to launch more retaliatory strikes, a day after a Russian attack on Kyiv killed 24 people.
Diplomatic efforts to end the war have stalled, with Kyiv unwilling to accept Moscow’s demands for territory in the eastern Donbas region.
The U.S. has pushed both sides to come to the negotiating table, but talks have slowed since Washington’s attention turned to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in late February.
After a three-day truce marking the anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II expired Tuesday, Moscow and Kyiv returned to trading attacks. Both sides accused each other of violating the truce.
Ukraine has regularly struck inside Russia in response to more than four years of daily bombardments by the Russian military.
After Moscow’s latest attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Zelenskyy said Kyiv’s strategy of targeting military and energy sites inside Russia to strike at Moscow’s ability to finance the war was “entirely justified.”
Kyiv’s allies have accused Russia of mocking diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.
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