Ukrainian attacks on Moscow triggered a major response, including drone breaches of the capital’s defensive rings. Bombs struck energy facilities and military factories and also some residential buildings, killing at least three civilians. Russian authorities reported shooting down 556 drones heading toward Moscow between Saturday night and Sunday morning, marking one of the largest attacks on the capital since the war began. Moscow’s vulnerability has been shown in earlier incidents, including a civilian death in September 2024 and a drone strike on a Kremlin palace in 2023. The Kremlin later carried out conventional bomb waves injuring civilians in Dnipro and Odesa. Ukrainian actions were framed as justified after Russia resumed bombing following a Victory Day truce.
"Everyone is asking an inevitable question. We have these powerful bombs... So what? It seems you can just nibble and bite at a nuclear power."
"This marks one of the largest Ukrainian attacks against the Russian capital since the start of the war, a city where bombs killed a civilian for the first time in September 2024 and whose vulnerability was highlighted when a drone struck one of the Kremlin palaces on the eve of Victory Day in 2023."
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