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One of Ukraine\u2019s largest drone strikes on Russia killed at least four people, including three near Moscow, and wounded a dozen others, local authorities said Sunday. Debris fell on Russia\u2019s largest airport without causing damage.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the drone strikes, saying that they were \u201centirely justified.\u201d Russia has repeatedly launched similar attacks on Ukraine\u2019s capital and other cities during\u00a0the war, and an expert said that the strikes appeared to be retaliation for recent Russian attacks on Kyiv.<\/p>\n
Russian drone strikes on Ukraine overnight wounded eight people, Ukrainian authorities said.<\/p>\n
In Ukraine\u2019s strikes on Russia, a woman was killed after a drone hit her home in Khimki, a Russian city just northwest of Moscow, and two men died in the village of Pogorelki, which is 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of the capital, according to local Gov. Andrei Vorobyev.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian drones had also damaged unspecified \u201cinfrastructure\u201d and several high-rise buildings, Vorobyev said on social media.<\/p>\n
One man was also killed after a drone struck a truck in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n
In Moscow itself, at least 12 people were wounded in the nighttime strike, mostly near the entrance to the city\u2019s oil refinery, mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported. Sobyanin reported that the \u201ctechnology\u201d of the refinery hadn\u2019t been damaged.<\/p>\n
Hours later, the Indian Embassy in Moscow reported that an Indian worker died in a drone strike \u201cin (the) Moscow region,\u201d while three other Indian nationals were hospitalized with injuries. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether the worker was one of the three people reported dead by Moscow region officials, or a further fatality.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s largest airport \u2014 Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo \u2014 said that drone debris had fallen on its grounds without causing damage or affecting flights.<\/p>\n
Russian defenses shot down 81 drones headed for Moscow overnight, state agency Tass reported, citing Sobyanin, marking one of the largest attacks on the city since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.<\/p>\n
Russian air defenses overnight destroyed 556 drones over Russia, the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Azov and Black Seas, the Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday morning. Shortly after midday local time, it reported that more than 1,000 drones had been shot down or jammed in the previous 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy said that the drones had flown more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) from Ukrainian territory, and that Ukraine was \u201covercoming\u201d Russian air defense systems concentrated in and around the capital.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur responses to Russia\u2019s prolongation of the war and attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-distance sanctions have reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n
Revenge for Russian attacks, expert says<\/p>\n
Nigel Gould Davies, senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank, said that Ukraine\u2019s large-scale attack appeared to be \u201cthe retaliation or revenge that President Zelenskyy promised after the fierce attacks that Russia carried out on Kyiv.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those strikes came immediately after the end of a brief ceasefire that allowed Russia to hold its annual\u00a0Victory Day parade\u00a0on May 9 commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany during World War II.<\/p>\n
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of repeatedly violating the pause in hostilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt brings home the fact Ukraine has the capacity to strike at very significant scale at or around the Russian capital,\u201d taking the war home to Russians in a way that would be \u201cmost unwelcome\u201d to the Kremlin, Gould Davies told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no ongoing peace process to disrupt. What (the attack) is more likely to do is add to the darkening cloud of anxiety over Russia which has developed palpably over the last three or four months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He cited a combination of factors, including Russia\u2019s recent battlefield setbacks, a deteriorating economic situation at home, and the Kremlin\u2019s\u00a0intensifying crackdown on the internet, including in Moscow and Russia\u2019s second-largest city, St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that Ukraine is reminding the Moscow population that it is vulnerable to these attacks is likely to intensify the mix of concerns now,\u201d Gould Davies said. \u201cI see no prospect though, in the shorter term, that even these factors together will induce Russia to consider the compromises that will be necessary for peace negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ukrainian drones are also flying deep into Russia to\u00a0strike oil facilities, sending up plumes of smoke that can be seen from space and bringing toxic rain to tourist destinations on the Black Sea. The attacks are\u00a0aimed at slashing Moscow\u2019s oil exports, a key source of funding for Russia\u2019s grinding invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
While their the economic impact is so far unclear \u2014 as the rise in oil prices from\u00a0the Iran war, and a related\u00a0easing of U.S. sanctions, have helped replenish the Kremlin\u2019s coffers \u2014 the range of the strikes and their environmental impact is bringing the war home to ordinary Russians far from the front lines.<\/p>\n
8 wounded in Russian drone strikes on Ukraine<\/p>\n
Russia attacked Ukraine with 287 drones overnight into Sunday, 279 of which were shot down or jammed, the Ukrainian air force reported.<\/p>\n
The strikes wounded 8 people in Ukraine\u2019s central Dnipropetrovsk region: three in the regional capital of Dnipro, four in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, and one in the district of Synelkove, Ukraine\u2019s state emergency service said.<\/p>\n
Residential buildings were damaged in all three locations, the service said.<\/p>\n
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