– Huge fires burned through Moscow overnight following one of Ukraine’s largest drone attacks on the Russian capital.
Two people were left dead as Ukraine and Russia continue to attack each other’s energy infrastructure – despite an announcement by US President Donald Trump on Monday that they had agreed to stop.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his Telegram channel that the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks had been thwarted, with Russia downing more than 1,600 drones since Saturday, including 450 headed for Moscow.
Several drones reached the Moscow Oil Refinery, while one hit an apartment, Sobyanin said.
The latest attack from Ukraine comes as Russia entered its third and final day of a parliamentary election that President Vladimir Putin has cast as a test of support for his country’s war in Ukraine.
‘The unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections,’ Sobyanin said. ‘The adversary failed to achieve this.’
A major warehouse in a logistics hub in the nearby town of Sofyino was also struck, killing a woman and injuring five others – including two children. Elsewhere in the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, an elderly man was killed by a downed drone.
Images showed how thick black smoke blanketed part of the city as it billowed from the site of the Moscow refinery.
The scale of any damage to the facility was not immediately known, while all four of Moscow’s main airports faced major disruption as the capital’s airspace was closed.
Ukrainian strikes have knocked out a significant part of Russia’s oil refining capacity, triggering oil product shortages, fuel price increases and long queues at filling stations in many regions across the country’s 11 time zones.
The Moscow plant, which has been targeted multiple times, processed 11.6 million metric tons of oil in 2024, producing 2.9 million tons of gasoline and 3.2 million tons of diesel, the latest available data shows.
Ukraine has not commented on the attacks. Both sides say they do not target civilians.
In the wider Moscow region, in addition to the two deaths, 400 people, including 70 children, were evacuated from a 21-storey apartment block in the Ramenskoye district, and many homes were damaged, said Governor Andrei Vorobyov.
Russia’s electoral chief said on Sunday that there had been over 1,000 waves of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting Russian election infrastructure in recent days.
DDoS attacks involve overwhelming a system with internet traffic so that it is unable to function normally.
‘Over the past period, more than 1,000 waves of DDoS attacks have been recorded against infrastructure in Russia that is specifically involved in the electoral process,’ the chair of Russia’s Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
Russians began three days of voting on Friday in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election.
The State Duma vote is expected to see the ruling United Russia party easily retain its dominance in a political system critics say does not tolerate dissent.
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