{"id":100079,"date":"2026-09-20T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ukraine-launches-1000-drones-at-russia-including-hundreds-fired-at-moscow-in-what-mayor-describes-as-largest-ever-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:05:25","slug":"ukraine-launches-1000-drones-at-russia-including-hundreds-fired-at-moscow-in-what-mayor-describes-as-largest-ever-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ukraine-launches-1000-drones-at-russia-including-hundreds-fired-at-moscow-in-what-mayor-describes-as-largest-ever-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine launches 1,000 drones at Russia, including hundreds fired at Moscow in what mayor describes as &#8220;largest ever&#8221; attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow&#8217;s mayor described the wave of drones as the &#8220;largest ever&#8221; attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-ukraine-russia-strikes-refineries\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Moscow oil refinery<\/a><\/span> and a residential building.<\/p>\n<p>Across the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and wounded 20, local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said. The dead were a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on social media, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-russia-war-zelenskyy-cbs-interview-drones-targeted-plane-twice\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a><\/span> said that Kyiv had used a range of missiles and drones in the attack \u2014 including Ukraine&#8217;s domestically made Flamingo and Pelican missiles \u2014 to hit oil and logistics facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine,&#8221; Zelenskyy said, referring to the financial pressure that Kyiv hopes to put on Russia&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine also continued to fend off Russian attacks, Zelenskyy said. A Russian drone strike hit a monastery in Ukraine&#8217;s Kherson region Saturday, killing a member of the clergy and wounding four people, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital also killed two children and their mother on Saturday evening, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional state administration. He later said that another child wounded in the same attack had died in hospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department on Friday said it had <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-ukraine-russia-war-air-defense-state-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">approved a potential $2.68 billion sale <\/a><\/span>of air defense equipment to Ukraine. The news came as U.S. President Trump signed a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/house-votes-russia-sanctions-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">bill introducing new sanctions designed<\/a><\/span> to pressure Russia over its war in Ukraine, after Congress gave its approval following months of delay.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia votes in an election devoid of opposition<\/h2>\n<p>The attack took place on the final day of Russia&#8217;s first wartime parliamentary election \u2014 balloting that has been virtually devoid of opposition to President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s policies and is all but certain to cement the Kremlin&#8217;s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Russia was also holding the vote in the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the war began but still doesn&#8217;t fully control, and in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Kyiv has denounced the action as illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Ministry of Defense said that its forces shot down a total of 1,110 Ukrainian drones across the country, as well as over the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the waters of the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that 450 drones had been destroyed en route to the Russian capital, and that the attack had damaged the Moscow Oil Refinery and a residential building.<\/p>\n<p>He said the &#8220;unprecedented attack&#8221; on Moscow was an attempt to disrupt the elections. &#8220;The enemy failed in this regard,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since Russia&#8217;s invasion more than four years ago, Ukraine has become a global leader in military drone technology, deploying domestically produced long-range drones alongside missiles for strikes deep inside Russia. Its drone technology has impressed governments and defense manufacturers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv is aiming to make the Russian public feel the war&#8217;s consequences and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into negotiating a peace settlement. 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