{"id":29060,"date":"2026-08-16T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/29060\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:14:09","slug":"russia-kills-two-at-steel-plant-in-new-wave-of-air-strikes-kyiv-attacks-moscow-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/29060\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia kills two at steel plant in new wave of air strikes, Kyiv attacks Moscow region"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Firefighters work at a site of a book market hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv region, Ukraine on Sunday.Gleb Garanich\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv\u2019s largest aerial attacks of the war.<\/p>\n

Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones increasingly targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly pummelled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars\u2019 worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant and bringing the war home to the Russian public nearly 4 1\/2 years into Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense said that it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight. Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third of those destroyed over the Moscow region itself.<\/p>\n

An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local Gov. Andrey Vorobyov said. He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Podolsk.<\/p>\n

A drone attack targeted three towns in Russia\u2019s southwestern Rostov region, killing five people, local Gov. Yury Slyusar said. The attack, with more than 150 drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest fire.<\/p>\n

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A firefighter works at the site of a book market hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv on Sunday.Valentyn Ogirenko\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Russian strikes kill five in Ukraine<\/p>\n

A Russian missile attack on Ukraine\u2019s Kryvyi Rih killed two people and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media Sunday. He also said that one more person had been killed in the city of Sumy. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere, a man and a woman both died when their home was hit by a Russian strike in Ukraine\u2019s southern Zaporizhzhia region, said Ivan Fedorov, the head of the local military administration. <\/p>\n

More attacks sparked fires throughout the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, wounding six people. <\/p>\n

\u201cWherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cSince this morning, air raid alerts have continued in many regions \u2013 the Russians launched another wave of drones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that it had targeted a metallurgical plant in Kryvyi Rih and several military-industrial sites in Kyiv, including a manufacturing facility for Ukraine\u2019s Flamingo missiles. <\/p>\n

The domestically produced missiles are increasingly key to Ukraine\u2019s long-range attacks on Russia, with Zelensky announcing Saturday that Kyiv had used the weapons to attack a rocket research and production centre in Samara approximately 900 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n

NATO jet downs drone in Romanian airspace<\/p>\n

Romania\u2019s Ministry of National Defense said Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace.<\/p>\n

The drone\u2019s entry into the NATO member\u2019s airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4:44 a.m., the ministry said, about 24 kilometres north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighbouring Moldova. Moldova is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania.<\/p>\n

A Spanish F-18 aircraft that was performing air policing duties \u201cmade radar contact with the target and received engagement approval,\u201d the ministry said. \u201cThe drone was safely shot down by the F-18 aircraft at 05:01.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials did not specify the drone\u2019s origin.<\/p>\n

The incident comes weeks after Romanian pilots shot down the three drones over three days from F-16 fighter jets, as Russia intensified attacks against Ukraine near the border. Since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Romania has reported dozens of drone incidents, including some that have crashed and exploded on its territory.<\/p>\n

Acting Foreign Minister Oana Toiu said in a post on X that the Spanish deployment in Romania was scaled up \u201cat the request of Romania and NATO to bolster the Eastern Flank following prior drone incidents,\u201d and that it was Spain\u2019s fourth such deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Firefighters work at a site of a book market hit by a Russian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[273,255,274,247,245,275,272,244,262,263,258,246,243,268,270,267,261,253,286,248,249,260,256,257,251,276,252,281,282,284,279,283,277,280,250,265,266,79,264,278,254,269,271,259,85,81,285],"class_list":["post-29060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}