Ukraine blitzes Moscow with the second largest drone strike of the war

Published: 07:16 EDT, 6 October 2026 | Updated: 07:17 EDT, 6 October 2026 Ukraine blitzed Moscow overnight, launching hundreds of drones towards the capital in the second largest UAV strike of the war. Two men, aged 71 and 20, were killed on the outskirts of the city while nine others were injured and dozens of homes obliterated, according to Russian authorities. Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, claimed Ukraine launched 650 drones at the capital on Tuesday night but that 'most were destroyed by air defences at long range'.According to Moscow governor Andrei Vorobyov, 185 drones were "destroyed or neutralised" across 16 municipalities in the region.He said the attack killed two men, aged 71 and 20, in separate locations on the outskirts of Moscow, while nine others were injured.Meanwhile 47 houses across seven municipalities had been damaged, as had four apartments in a residential building in the village of Lobanovo, he said.Several settlements in the region were also reportedly left without power as the head of Domodedovo, a town south of Moscow, said work was under way to restore electricity to villages that had been hit by drones. War blogger Yuri Podolyaka claimed a Ukrainian drone also struck a fuel storage tank at Volodarskaya, the site of Moscow's largest oil distribution facility, which stores diesel, gasoline and jet fuel. Ukrainian drones hit key Moscow fuel hub, supplying capital's three main airports as huge fire erupts at the Volodarskaya oil depotA separate blog site, Supernova+, also shared video footage purporting to show a huge blaze at the site, however there has been no official confirmation it was bombed in the attack.According to the Russian state news agency TASS, last night's drone attack was the second largest on Moscow and the surrounding region over the past two years – hundreds of kilometres from the Ukrainian border.Operations at the city's four airports were also disrupted by the strikes, with air traffic restrictions imposed multiple times during the night and morning, according to Rosaviatsia, the Russian civil aviation authority.Both Ukraine and Russia have stepped up long-range strikes on civilian and industrial targets - including energy, transport and port infrastructure, as well as ships in the Black Sea - in recent months. Moscow has said it plans to increase strikes on infrastructure targets, including in Kyiv, as winter approaches.Meanwhile Ukraine has increasingly targeted oil refineries, depots and export terminals in an effort to deprive Russia of ⁠the revenues it needs to finance the war.