Ukraine launches hundreds of drones in deadly attack targeting Russia, Moscow says
At least three people were killed in the overnight aerial assault, Russia said.
LONDON and MOSCOW -- Ukraine launched overnight more than 550 drones targeting more than a dozen Russian regions, including Moscow, Russian officials said, in a deadly attack that's among the largest-scale aerial assaults aimed at the capital region since the war began.
Ukraine launched some 556 drones that were "intercepted and destroyed" over a nine-hour period ending early on Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on the Telegram messaging app.
At least three people were killed in the Moscow region, local officials said. Reuters reported that the death toll had climbed to four.
The drone launches, which were not immediately confirmed by Ukraine, followed a warning issued on Friday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said that Kyiv was "defining targets for our next long-range sanctions."
"Ukraine will not allow any of the aggressor’s strikes that take the lives of our people to go unpunished," Zelenskyy said on Friday on social media. "We are entirely justified in our responses against Russia’s oil industry, military production, and those directly responsible for committing war crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians."
Zelenskyy on Sunday morning said Russia had launched in the last week more than 3,170 attack drones, over 1,300 guided aerial bombs and 74 missiles targeting Ukraine.
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