Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow region kills 5, governor says

At least five people were killed by a Ukrainian drone attack on an industrial area in the Moscow region overnight, regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said in a post to Telegram on Tuesday, in what appeared to be the deadliest such attack on the capital region since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. At least 10 people were also injured in the attack, Vorobyov said. The impact set several fires in an industrial zone, Vorobyov wrote, with damage also done to an administrative building and an electrical substation. He also reported damage to a home and a vehicle in the village of Solnyshkovo. He said, The military continues to repel the attack, adding, Drones have been detected over the Moscow region in the Volokolamsk, Klin, Chekhov and Serebryanye Prudy districts. Leningrad Gov. Aleksandr Drozdenko said via Telegram that at least 17 Ukrainian drones were shot down over his region, and that Damage has been recorded in the warehouse area of Krasny Bor, with a Wildberries facility among the damaged sites. Another Wildberries facility was also attacked in the Tver region, per Gov. Vitaly Korolev. Russia's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that it downed at least 320 Ukrainian drones overnight, including over the Moscow and Leningrad regions. Krasnodar region governor Veniamin Kondratyev accused Kyiv of 'a deliberate strike on civilians.' Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Counter-Disinformation Center within Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said on Telegram that 'Russian air defenses were at fault for shooting down the craft and failing to adequately warn those in the area.' In July, per ministry after-action reports analyzed by ABC News, Moscow said it downed 'at least 13,312 Ukrainian drones -- a record monthly total.' Recent Ukrainian drone strikes have been targeting the nationwide storage and transport network of Wildberries, which Kyiv says facilitates the sale of military equipment -- including drones -- to Russian soldiers. Ukraine has also been expanding its drone strikes into Russia, referred to by officials in Kyiv as 'long-range sanctions,' often targeting key oil processing infrastructure. Zelenskyy has defended the expanding attacks, vowing to 'bring war back to Russia.' At least seven people were killed when a Ukrainian drone exploded on a beach in southern Russia on Monday. The air force said Russia launched 136 drones and one ballistic missile into the country, of which 117 drones were intercepted or otherwise suppressed, and The ballistic missile and 14 drones impacted across 14 locations. The State Emergency Service reported one woman was killed and two girls injured in Mykolaiv; Another woman and two more girls were killed and four other people wounded in a strike on a residential area in Sumy; and two other people were injured in the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.