Moscow’s mayor says Russia has intercepted 1,600 drones since Saturday, including 450 aimed at the capital. At least two people were killed and a major refinery was damaged in a Ukrainian drone strike in the Moscow region, including the capital, as Russian parliamentary elections enter their final day. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Sunday that more than 1,600 drones had been intercepted, 450 of which were headed for the capital. 3 itemsend of list Meanwhile, in Ukraine, authorities said at least four people were killed in Russian attacks overnight in the kyiv region, including three children. The attacks come as Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate long-range attacks on each other. ‘Unprecedented’ attack on Moscow Moscow regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said on social media that a 44-year-old woman and an elderly man were killed in two separate Ukrainian attacks. A fire caused by a drone that crashed into a 21-story building forced the evacuation of 400 people, Vorobyov said. Sobyanin said a facility at Moscow’s oil refinery was also damaged in the wave of attacks and emergency services were at the scene. The main refinery has already been hit by Ukrainian attacks in recent months. He accused Ukraine of trying to interfere with Russia’s tightly controlled three-day elections. “The unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections. The enemy was not successful,” he said on Telegram. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised the strikes, saying: “Our far-reaching responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night.” The aggressor’s logistics facilities were attacked. “It’s billions of dollars that sustain the war machine,” he posted on to cut off a vital source of Kremlin revenue used to finance its war effort, now in its fifth year. Al Jazeera’s Dmitry Medvedenko, reporting from Moscow, said this was one of the largest single-day attacks on Russia since the war began. “I have not seen such large numbers in the four and a half years of this conflict, especially in the last six months when the Ukrainian attacks have intensified,” he said. Will it cause people to express their frustration at how this conflict has been directly affecting them after four and a half years? Will it make them gather here around the flag, show unity, as President Vladimir Putin was asking the people? We’ll have to wait and see.” Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air force reported that Russia launched 138 drones of various types across the country overnight, according to the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency. It said air defenses managed to shoot down 101 of them. A woman and her two three-year-old children were killed when a Russian drone hit a house in the kyiv region, according to the emergency service. kyiv region governor Tymur Tkachenko said a girl died in hospital after a drone strike in another district. Tkachenko said the region endured more than a day of attacks, with 31 sites damaged in five districts. The southwestern district of Fastiv suffered the most damage, with 24 sites affected, including homes, industrial and utility buildings, vehicles and land of an agricultural company Russia has been repeatedly attacking Kiev and the surrounding region with drones in recent weeks. that the kyiv region has been frequently attacked in recent days. “This is part of the reality of life in Ukraine right now.”
