At least 11 drones from Ukraine targeted Moscow on Wednesday, but the strikes were shot down by air defenses. Russian officials described this as one of the largest drone attacks on the capital since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022.
The war intensified on August 6 when Ukraine deployed thousands of soldiers across the border into Russia’s western Kursk area. Up until then, the conflict had mostly been a grueling artillery and drone warfare across the fields, forests, and villages of eastern Ukraine.
Russia, the second-largest oil exporter in the world, has been the target of an increasingly destructive drone war that Ukraine has waged for months against its refineries and airfields; nevertheless, significant drone assaults on the Moscow region, home to more than 21 million people, have been less frequent.
