Ukraine Fires 800 Drones at Russia; 10 Dead
Ukraine Fires 800 Drones at Russia; 10 Dead
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Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war at Russia overnight into Tuesday, firing almost 800 drones — many of them aimed at the region around Moscow — as Kyiv tries to make Russians feel the cost of Vladimir Putin's invasion.
Russia's Defense Ministry said it intercepted 791 Ukrainian drones over several Russian regions, annexed Crimea, and the Black and Azov seas. Russian state news agency TASS called it the heaviest such attack in two years.
Hours earlier, a Russian missile strike on the village of Pechenihy in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region killed at least 10 civilians, regional officials said.
Timeline
Ukraine staged one of its largest attacks on Russian territory of the war, two days before Tuesday's salvo.
Russia's embassy in London responded to reports in The Times that UK-supplied drones had been used in strikes on Russian territory, accusing Britain of "deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis, while hypocritically professing a desire for peace."
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said more than 600 drones flew toward the Moscow region, with 180 shot down over the Moscow area. Regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov gave a slightly lower figure of "over 150" and said three people were injured in three separate districts, including a young girl with a shrapnel wound to the hand. Officials reported no deaths and no major damage.
Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, said a Russian missile strike on Pechenihy killed 10 civilians and wounded 17, calling the figures preliminary. Ukraine's National Police said three more people were killed and three wounded over the past day in Russian attacks on the Sumy region, including drone strikes and an explosive device blast.
Reactions
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the Kharkiv strike "a brutal attack," saying it hit a busy intersection and damaged 10 homes, a cafe, a post office, a store and at least seven vehicles. "We will definitely respond to this Russian strike," he said on social media.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X that "Putin continues to drag out the war instead of accepting Ukraine's realistic ceasefire proposals and ending the bloodshed."
Russia's embassy in London accused the UK of "acting as an accomplice and co-perpetrator" of attacks on Russian territory and warned that "London's actions will inevitably carry consequences for which it will have to answer."
Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer, said a facility hit in the attack sustained "insignificant damage." Vorobyov said a drone struck a Wildberries warehouse near Atlant-Park in the city of Kolomna.
What's Next
Zelenskyy has promised a response to the Pechenihy strike, and both sides are locked in an escalating exchange of long-range aerial attacks. Casualty figures from Kharkiv are preliminary and may rise as emergency crews finish working the site.
Putin has shown no sign he intends to stop the invasion or accept a ceasefire, and Russia's warning to London over drone supplies leaves open the question of how Moscow answers Western support for Kyiv.
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Over the past year Ukraine has built and deployed domestically produced long-range drones for strikes deep inside Russia, technology that has drawn attention from governments and defense manufacturers around the world. Kyiv officials say the goal is to make the Russian public feel the war's consequences and pressure Putin into negotiating.
Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Wildberries depots, which it says help supply the Russian military. Fighting along the roughly 780-mile front line in eastern and southern Ukraine is constrained by large numbers of drones and ground robots that threaten troop movements, analysts say.
The UN has warned that intensified Russian strikes on towns and cities in July pushed civilian deaths to levels not seen since May 2022, in the earliest months of the war.
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