{"id":967572,"date":"2026-05-17T23:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/967572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:45:36","slug":"ukraine-drones-kill-four-in-russia-moscow-faces-biggest-attack-in-over-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/967572\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine drones kill four in Russia, Moscow faces biggest attack in over a year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least four people were killed, including three in the Moscow region, after Ukraine launched its biggest overnight drone attack on the Russian capital in more than a year, local officials said on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A fourth person was killed in the Belgorod region bordering northeastern Ukraine, local authorities said, while Russia\u2019s defence ministry said that by midday more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones had been downed over the country in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

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People stand in front of an apartment building damaged during a Ukrainian drone attack in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Krasnogorsk, in the Moscow region, Russia, on 17th May, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters\/Stringer<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had vowed retribution on Friday following Russia\u2019s heaviest drone and missile attack on Kyiv over a two-day period since the war started more than four years ago.<\/p>\n

Confirming the attack, Zelenskiy posted a video on X of a drone in flight, columns of black smoke and fire crews trying to extinguish flames.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur responses to Russia\u2019s prolongation of the war and its attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified,\u201d Zelenskiy said.<\/p>\n

He added that Ukraine was able to strike targets more than 500 kilometres from the border despite dense Russian air defences around Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are clearly telling the Russians: Their state must end its war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Speaking later in his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said Ukraine\u2019s increased military activity had produced a \u201cchange in the balance of actions at the front, which is now tangible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, the activity indicators for today are such that our active measures are greater than those of Russia. This is a very substantial result,\u201d he said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian military\u2019s General Staff, posting on Telegram, said one strike had triggered a fire at a plant outside Moscow engaged in production of high-precision weapons. It also said a command point overseeing drone flights had been hit in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s foreign ministry accused Kyiv of targeting civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo the sound of Eurovision songs, the Kyiv regime, financed by the EU, carried out yet another mass terrorist attack,\u201d TASS news agency cited the ministry\u2019s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.<\/p>\n

Both sides deny deliberately targeting civilians.<\/p>\n

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Firefighters work at a damaged house after a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region, Russia on 17th May, 2026. PICTURE: Moscow Regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov\/Handout via Reuters<\/p>\n

Long-range attacks
<\/strong>Ukraine has stepped up drone attacks on targets deep inside Russia in recent weeks, aiming to knock out oil refineries, depots and pipelines, as both sides seek to degrade each other\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n

TASS cited Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin as saying air defences had destroyed 81 drones headed for Moscow since midnight, the largest attack on the capital in more than a year.<\/p>\n

Sobyanin said 12 people were wounded, mostly near the entrance to Moscow\u2019s oil refinery, while three houses were damaged. The \u201ctechnology\u201d of the refinery was not damaged, he added.<\/p>\n

Moscow regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said a woman was killed when a home was hit in Khimki, north of the capital, adding that rescuers were searching the debris for another person. Two men were killed in the village of Pogorelki in the Mytishchi district.<\/p>\n

Several residential high-rises and infrastructure facilities were damaged, he said.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s largest airport, Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo, said drone debris had fallen on its territory but caused no damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters At least four people were killed, including three in the Moscow region, after Ukraine launched its biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":967573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[159692,2301,332,38553,657,17961,20729],"class_list":["post-967572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-belgorod","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-sergei-sobyanin","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-conflict","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116592583950183528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}