Moscow mayor says Russian capital faced largest drone attack in past 2 years

Another overnight drone attack on Moscow was the largest in the past two years, with 620 drones heading for the capital since Monday evening, according to Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

Sobyanin said on Russian social media platform Max that 180 drones had been destroyed in the Moscow region between Monday evening and Tuesday until 5 am (0200 GMT).

“At the sites where debris fell, emergency services are working,” he said.

The previous largest attempted attack was on Aug. 15-16, when 600 drones were reported to have flown toward Moscow.

The latest attack also caused damage in parts of the Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital.

Governor Andrey Vorobyov said a drone struck another warehouse belonging to online retailer Wildberries near Atlant-Park in the region's Bogorodsky district, where a fire was subsequently contained.

Two private homes were damaged and several fires were reported elsewhere in the region, he added.

No casualties were reported in the affected areas, according to Vorobyov.

Wildberries' press service said on Telegram that the overnight attack caused minor damage to the company's logistics facility in the region, with debris striking the building's wall.

"The damage was quickly dealt with. The facility was evacuated in accordance with safety regulations. No goods were damaged," it added.

Moscow faced several large-scale drone attacks in July, including an episode in which more than 430 drones were reported to have been intercepted in a single night.

On March 11, 2025, Sobyanin described an attack as the most intensive at that time, saying 74 drones had been shot down on approach to Moscow and hundreds had been intercepted.

Ukraine has intensified drone strikes on Wildberries logistics facilities in a campaign that began in mid-July and has spread across several Russian regions.

Since July 18, Ukrainian drones have targeted Wildberries logistics centers in multiple regions, including Moscow, Samara, Leningrad, Krasnodar, Sverdlovsk and Ryazan, as well as in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.

Kyiv has accused the e-commerce retailer of playing a role in Russia's military supply chain, while the Kremlin and Wildberries maintain that the facilities are purely civilian.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that it downed 791 Ukrainian drones overnight across 15 regions, including Moscow, as well as over the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and Crimea.