Overview
- An overnight barrage reported Sunday left at least three people dead in the Moscow region after drones struck homes in Khimki and Mytishchi, according to local officials.
- In Khimki’s Starbeievo district a drone hit a private house and killed a woman as rescuers worked to free another person, while in Mytishchi’s Pogorelki village debris hit a house under construction and killed two men.
- In the western town of Istra, authorities said four people were wounded and an apartment building and six houses were damaged.
- Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defenses downed more than 120 drones headed for the capital and its outskirts, and Russia’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted 556 drones nationwide overnight.
- Russian authorities blamed Ukraine for the operation and state media framed it as the biggest on Moscow in more than a year, though the reports offered no independent confirmation from Kyiv.