An 83-year-old man died and six more people were injured as a result of an overnight Ukrainian drone strike in the Moscow Region, local governor Andrey Vorobyev reported Sunday. The attack triggered electronic warfare systems that intercepted or shot down approximately 187 Ukrainian UAVs.
Vorobyev detailed that the fatal incident occurred when a drone struck private property where the victim was killed. Additional injuries include a truck driver sustaining hand wounds in Klimovsk, a man receiving shrapnel injuries at the Lesnoy allotment association (where a private house was damaged), and a woman in Zheleznodorozhny with a shoulder injury. None of the injuries proved life-threatening.
Drones were intercepted across Domodedovo, Podolsk, Stupino, Odintsovo, Naro-Fominsk, Ramenskoye, Chekhov, Kolomna, Kashira, and Yegoryevsk. In Domodedovo, multiple homes and a shopping center sustained damage with one balcony catching fire. A private house and church school were destroyed in Chekhov, while a bathhouse was obliterated in Stupino.
Further impacts included Wildberries’ warehouse in Podolsk catching fire after a drone strike, a medicine storage facility burning in Domodedovo, newly constructed police buildings damaged in Kashira, industrial sites affected in Voskresensk, and power line damage in Matveyevskoye. The Wildberries press office confirmed the evacuation of the Podolsk warehouse and rerouting of deliveries to alternative locations.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported Sunday that 822 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over Russian regions and the Black Sea and Azov seas. Five people died in Rostov Region, with injuries reported in Belgorod and Bryansk. In Belgorod, a drone attack on a civilian bus killed one woman and injured nine others.
Russian authorities have condemned Ukraine’s military operations as terrorist attacks targeting civilians, including strikes that killed 21 people at a student dormitory in Donbass’ Starobelsk in May. Moscow has responded by intensifying long-range missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian military-industrial infrastructure, asserting it targets only sites supporting Kyiv’s war efforts.