According to Russian authorities, Ukraine's largest drone strike targeted the Moscow area, which affected the capital's principal oil refinery and a residential complex.
According to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, 450 drones that were fired at the capital have been shot down in what he has termed" the biggest assault" so much.
For its part, the government of the area claimed 20 injuries and at least two fatalities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Kiev had attacked with drones and missiles a “key” Russian oil facility and a logistics center in the region, representing “billions of dollars supporting the war machinery.”
In addition, Ukrainian authorities reported that three children were killed in the Saturday Russian attacks on the parts of Kyiv and Sumy.
Russia and Ukraine have lately launched additional problems, aiming at both significant shipping centers and power plants and transportation facilities.
A 44-year-old woman died on Sunday in Sofyino, a rural town in the Moscow region, after a drone crashed into a three-storey residential building, regional head Andrei Vorobyev said. Five people, including two children, were injured.
An elderly man died after a projectile hit a private home in the Orekhovo-Zuevo district, about 110 kilometers east of Moscow, Governor Andrei Vorobye said.
Videos appear to show explosions over Moscow's night sky and a burnt warehouse have spread on social networks.The BBC has not independently verified the authenticity of those images.
Mayor Sobyanin said a drone had crashed into a building near one of the capital’s bulevards and the oil refinery, where, according to Ukrainian military officials, three key units were damaged.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the plant supplies more than a third of the fuel in the Moscow region, and part of its gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel is destined to the Russian military.
The Ukrainian defense minister said that attacking such facilities “directly undermines the enemy’s ability to continue its war of aggression and supply its military formations.”
Sobyanin, for his part, said the main attack was “an attempt to disrupt” the Russian parliamentary elections, which on Sunday were celebrating their third and final day.
The vote is strictly controlled by the Kremlin and has been criticized for not being free, fair or transparent.
Russian state media that an election official was one of two people killed in a drone attack on a bus in a Moscow-controlled area of Jershon in Ukraine on Sunday, citing the head of the Russian election commission.
Meanwhile, Moscow’s largest Sheremetyevo airport warned passengers that temporary restrictions had been imposed overnight. In Vnukovo, another of the terminals serving the city, all arrivals and departures were suspended.
Restrictions at both terminals were lifted Sunday morning, but authorities in both warned that some flights could still suffer delays.
The attack came after a mother and her two young children, a boy and a girl, were killed on Saturday in a Russian bombing of Fastiv, a city near Kyiv, said Tymur Tchachenko, head of the capital’s military administration.
He later stated that a child injured in a separate attack in Vyshhorod, north of the Ukrainian capital, had also died in the hospital.
In the northeastern Sumy region, four people died when a Russian drone crashed into the car in which they were traveling, Oleg Hryhorov, a senior local official, said.
According to Zelensky, Russia also attacked a monastery in the Jershon region with a drone on Saturday, killing one cleric and wounding four others.
Both Russia and Ukraine have continued to their energy infrastructure targets over the past week, despite U.S. President Donald Trump claiming on social media that both sides had agreed not to do so.
On Friday, Trump signed a bill of sanctions targeting the Russian economy by imposing tariffs on the country’s largest oil and gas buyers, including China and India.
The legislation gives the president of the United States the power to impose tariffs of 100% on the main Russian energy buyers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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