Ukraine unleashes more than 400 drones near Moscow in one of war's biggest attacks

Ukraine launched 1 of its largest drone attacks of the warfare against Moscow and the surrounding portion overnight, striking an lipid depot and logistics facilities much than 250 miles from the Ukrainian border, according to Ukrainian and Russian officials.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said much than 400 Ukrainian drones were launched toward the Moscow portion betwixt Sunday evening and aboriginal Monday, including 85 that were destroyed portion approaching the Russian capital. Russia’s Defense Ministry separately claimed that its forces intercepted 381 drones crossed Russian regions, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

The Russian claims could not beryllium independently verified by Fox News Digital.

At slightest 10 radical were wounded successful the Moscow region, including 3 Chinese nationals, according to determination authorities cited by Reuters. Seven of the injuries were reported successful Domodedovo, Russia, wherever officials said a residential gathering was struck and a occurrence broke retired astatine an concern parkland adjacent 1 of Moscow’s main airports.

The standard and scope of the cognition suggest Ukraine is moving beyond occasional symbolic attacks connected Moscow and gathering a sustained run against the infrastructure that supports Russia’s war. 

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By simultaneously targeting lipid facilities, proscription networks and logistics hubs hundreds of miles from the front, Kyiv is seeking to disrupt the travel of substance and supplies to Russian forces, trim gross disposable to the Kremlin and unit Moscow to divert air-defense systems distant from the battlefield. 

Ukrainian attacks connected Russian refineries had doubled since the opening of 2026, Reuters reported, contributing to refinery shutdowns and reduced accumulation of gasoline, diesel and pitchy fuel.

Smoke and flames emergence from an concern installation successful Podolsk, Russia, successful the Moscow region, aft a large-scale Ukrainian drone onslaught overnight July 20, 2026. (East2west news)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukrainian forces targeted logistics facilities and an lipid depot successful the Moscow region.

"Our long-range sanctions person produced results against logistics facilities and an lipid depot," Zelenskyy wrote connected X, adding that the targets were much than 400 kilometers (roughly 250 miles) from Ukraine’s border. "We are responding, justly, to each Russian onslaught against our cities and communities."

Wildberries, a institution known arsenic "Russia’s Amazon," said its logistics halfway successful the Podolsk territory of Russia was temporarily evacuated arsenic a precaution earlier resuming mean operations, East2West News reported. Ukraine has accused the institution of selling supplies utilized by the Russian military.

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Smoke rises from the Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo vessel Golden Leo aft it was struck adjacent Odesa connected July 20, 2026. Ukrainian officials said 10 radical were killed successful the Russian rocket attack. (East2west news)

Ksenia Svetlova, subordinate chap astatine Chatham House argumentation institute based successful London, argued that the disruption caused by strikes connected substance infrastructure and companies specified arsenic Wildberries is unlikely, by itself, to alteration President Vladimir Putin’s attack to the war.

"The hardship of the Russian national who suffers due to the fact that of substance shortages, the onslaught connected a Wildberries warehouse, oregon forced recruitment does not involvement him," Svetlova said. "The warfare instrumentality is operating astatine afloat force, and helium has neither the tendency nor the quality to halt it."

Svetlova said Putin remains reluctant to denote different wide mobilization aft ample numbers of young Russians fled the state during the Kremlin’s erstwhile call-up. At the aforesaid time, she said, Russia’s subject inactive needs further troops aft recruiting heavy from its situation colonisation and is progressively pressuring mean civilians accused of comparatively insignificant offenses to motion subject contracts.

The sweeping Ukrainian cognition followed 1 of Russia’s largest ballistic rocket attacks of the warfare against Kyiv. Ukraine’s aerial unit said Russia launched 41 missiles of assorted types successful the overnight barrage, which killed astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 16, Reuters reported Sunday.

The Russian onslaught besides dispersed into the Black Sea, wherever a Russian rocket onslaught connected the Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo vessel Golden Leo killed 10 radical adjacent Odesa, Reuters reported Monday.

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An detonation strikes a gathering successful Domodedovo, successful the Moscow region, during a large-scale Ukrainian drone onslaught overnight connected July 20, 2026. (East2West news)

Ukrainian officials said the vessel, which was carrying corn, was struck by 3 cruise missiles and caught fire. Nine unit members and a Ukrainian maritime aviator were killed, portion 8 different unit members were rescued. The ship’s unit included Indian and Syrian nationals, according to Reuters.

The escalation comes arsenic Zelenskyy faces increasing home unit implicit his removal of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a 35-year-old reformer credited with expanding Ukraine’s drone capabilities and seeking to modernize subject procurement and management. Fedorov’s supporters viewed him arsenic a uncommon authoritative consenting to situation entrenched practices, amended oversight of defence spending and propulsion a technology-centered attack to the war.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered pursuing Fedorov’s dismissal, demanding his reinstatement and the removal of commander-in-chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi. Protesters person accused Syrskyi of resisting modernization and retaining a rigid bid operation that they accidental contributes to precocious unit losses. Syrskyi has defended his wartime grounds and called for unity.

Fedorov publically accused Syrskyi of blocking his initiatives and sabotaging his work. Zelenskyy said their narration had deteriorated truthful severely that the 2 could nary longer enactment together, but provided small further mentation for removing Fedorov.

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People protestation against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's determination to regenerate Mykhailo Fedorov arsenic defence minister, amid Russia’s onslaught connected Ukraine, successful Kyiv, Ukraine, July 18, 2026. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Zelenskyy indicated Monday that consultations implicit Ukraine’s subject enactment were continuing, saying helium had spoken with Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi astir ensuring that the acquisition of each subdivision of Ukraine’s defence forces was applied successful a coordinated manner. He did not denote immoderate determination connected Syrskyi’s future.

Reuters contributed to this report.