Ukraine targets Moscow in mass drone attack as Russia bombards Kiev

A Ukrainian drone assault struck Moscow, resulting in at least one death and three injuries, as Russia retaliated by bombarding the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, with ballistic missiles. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that 600 drones targeted the city, with 201 destroyed, while Andrei Vorobyov, governor of Moscow oblast, confirmed an 83-year-old man was killed when a drone struck his home.

The drone onslaught followed Ukrainian authorities' claim that one person died and seven were wounded in Russian air strikes the previous day. An attack on Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky, left one woman dead and six others injured, according to the regional governor.

Kiev was under "ballistic missile attack" late Saturday, with additional casualties and fires reported in Obolonskyi and Holosiivskyi districts. Romania's Ministry of National Defence announced on Sunday that a Spanish F-18 jet shot down a Russian drone breaching Romanian airspace during a NATO air policing mission. NATO remains prepared to defend itself against such threats.

In July, Romanian forces had previously downed a suspected Russian drone, and in May, another drone collision injured two people in Galati. Romania, with a 634km border with Ukraine, has repeatedly faced Russian drone intrusions amid Russia's ongoing bombardment campaign against Ukrainian civilian and military infrastructure. The war has also spread to key regional shipping routes, with reports of mines and unmanned sea drones found in the Black Sea.

Civilian casualties in Ukraine reached their highest level since 2022 in July, with at least 437 fatalities and 2,610 injuries, according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission.