LONDON — Russian air defenses within the Moscow area shot down at the least 201 Ukrainian drones in a single day and into Sunday morning, in line with an announcement from town’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, in what seemed to be Ukraine’s largest wave of drone assaults on the Russian capital of the battle thus far.
The 201 drones downed had been amongst round 600 craft that had been launched within the course of Moscow between Saturday night and early Sunday morning, Sobyanin stated in a sequence of statements posted to Telegram.
Sobyanin didn’t report any injury or casualties, although stated that emergency responders had been deployed to the location of fallen particles.
Moscow’s regional Gov. Andrey Vorobyov, although, reported in a submit to Telegram that one individual was killed within the capital’s Ramensky district when a drone fell on a residential property.
A firefighting helicopter prepares to drop a load of water throughout a hearth at Russian e-commerce agency Wildberries’ logistics advanced close to the city of Podolsk, exterior Moscow, on Aug. 16, 2026.
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Russia’s Protection Ministry stated its forces downed at the least 822 Ukrainian drones in a single day. The craft had been shot down over 16 Russian areas, occupied Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Native officers reported that 5 individuals had been killed by a drone assault within the Rostov area and that one individual was killed in a drone assault on a bus within the Belgorod area.
Ukrainian forces additionally once more focused amenities belonging to Russia’s e-commerce large Wildberries. The corporate reported a hearth at a warehouse within the metropolis of Podolsk to the south of Moscow.
The Ukrainian missile and drone manufacturing firm Hearth Level stated in a submit to Telegram that its weapons had been used to assault “a Wildberries logistics hub” in Kolyadino in Podolsk.
Russia’s federal air transport company, Rosaviatsiya, reported momentary flight restrictions at airports in Kaluga, Tambov, Gelendzhik and Sochi, in addition to at three of Moscow’s 4 worldwide airports — Vnukovo, Domedodovo and Zhukovsky.
Russia continued its personal long-range strike marketing campaign on Ukraine in a single day. Ukraine’s air pressure stated Russian forces launched a number of missiles and 106 drones into the nation in its newest barrage, of which three missiles and 85 drones had been shot down or in any other case suppressed.
Impacts of Russian munitions had been reported throughout 13 areas, the air pressure stated.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a submit to Telegram that at the least six individuals had been injured within the capital Kyiv and throughout the encompassing area.
Two individuals had been killed by Russian strikes in Zelenskyy’s dwelling metropolis of Kryvyi Rih, the president wrote, as was one individual within the northeastern metropolis of Sumy. Two extra individuals had been killed within the southern Zaporizhzhia area, native officers there stated.
This handout {photograph} taken and launched by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service on Aug. 16, 2026 reveals rescuers working on the website of a Russian strike in Kyiv.
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“When North Korean ballistic missiles destroy infrastructure and take lives right here, in Europe, we can not permit European interceptors to easily stay in storage,” Zelenskyy wrote, in one other enchantment to international companions to bolster Kyiv’s thinning shares of air protection munitions.
“Defending lives is important. Russia have to be stopped. New assist packages signify, fairly actually, lives saved and infrastructure protected daily,” Zelenskyy stated.
Amid Russia’s newest barrage, at the least one drone was reported as having crossed into NATO airspace in Romania, from the course of Moldova. The Protection Ministry in Bucharest stated in an announcement that the craft was tracked and shot down by a Spanish F-18 fighter jet.
