August 16, 2026 | 06:36 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Hundreds of drones have targeted the Moscow region in a sustained overnight assault that wounded killed at least six people, according to the Russian capital's mayor, as Ukraine steps up long-range attacks deep inside Russia.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 600 drones had been flying toward the Moscow region between Saturday evening and 6:30 a.m. local time (0330 UTC) on Sunday, adding that 201 were destroyed over the region.
What happened in the Moscow drone attack?
Russia said that five people had been killed in Ukrainian attacks on its territory, five in the southwestern city of Rostov and one in the Moscow region.
Sobyanin said three people were wounded in the area inside Moscow's MKAD ring road and were receiving medical treatment.
Ukraine has intensified long-range strikes inside Russia in recent weeks, targeting military and industrial facilities as well as warehouses far from the front line.
Ukraine's Kyiv Independent newspaper reported that Ukrainian forces had targeted a warehouse belonging to Russian online retail giant Wildberries as well as industrial facilities in several cities across the Moscow region.
There was no immediate independent confirmation of the scale of the attack.
Where did Russia attack in Ukraine?
Russian attacks have killed at least five people and wounded dozens more across Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a missile strike on his hometown of Kryvyi Rih killed two people and injured 14 others, while another person was killed in the northeastern city of Sumy.
"Wherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure," Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy said the Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih caused multiple casualties, with emergency services responding at the scene. The city, a major industrial center in central Ukraine, has repeatedly been targeted during the war.
In the southern Zaporizhzhia region, a man and a woman were killed when a Russian strike hit their home, regional military administration head Ivan Fedorov said.
Spanish fighter jet shoots down drone over Romania
The attack came as NATO countries on Ukraine's borders faced fresh drone incursions of their own.
Romania's Defense Ministry said a Spanish F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone early Sunday after it entered Romanian airspace from Moldova near the border with Ukraine.
The aircraft was operating on NATO duties and intercepted the drone at 5:01 a.m. local time (0201 UTC).
Debris fell in an unpopulated area of Galati county, close to the Ukrainian border.
Romanian authorities did not immediately identify the drone's origin or say who launched it.
Romania has repeatedly reported drone debris on its territory since 2023 following Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports along the Danube.
On Friday, an Italian Eurofighter operating under NATO command also shot down a foreign drone that entered Latvian airspace.
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