A large-scale overnight drone attack on Moscow by Ukraine killed at least two people and damaged a major oil refinery, Moscow’s regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said Sunday — the last day of voting in Russia’s parliamentary elections. Sergei Sobyanin, the city’s mayor, said more than 1,600 drones were intercepted and shot down, with 450 of them headed for the Russian capital. The enemy did not succeed.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed attacks had been carried out against infrastructure facilities in and around Moscow.
One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit,” he said on X. Russian voters have been heading to the polls this weekend in the first parliamentary elections since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party is expected to retain its dominance in the parliament and present the win as proof of public support for the war in Ukraine.
On Saturday, Ukrainian officials said three children and a woman had died in Russian attacks on the Vyshgorod district of Kyiv. Regional Governor Tymur Tkachenko said Sunday a child who was injured in Saturday’s attack had died in hospital.
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