LONDON — Ukraine resumed drone assaults on Moscow in a single day into Wednesday morning, the town’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin stated, hours after the departure of the aircraft that carried CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow for an unannounced go to on Tuesday morning.
Ukraine agreed to a U.S. request to not launch drone or missile strikes in opposition to Moscow throughout Ratcliffe’s go to, a Ukrainian official informed ABC Information on Tuesday.
A minimum of 10 drones had been shot down whereas flying towards Moscow, Sobyanin stated in a submit to Telegram within the early hours of Wednesday morning. “Emergency companies specialists are working on the crash web site of the particles,” the mayor stated.
Russia’s federal air transport company, Rosaviatsiya, reported momentary flight restrictions at three of Moscow’s 4 worldwide airports — Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Vnukovo — amid the in a single day assaults. Ratcliffe’s aircraft landed at Vnukovo on Tuesday morning and departed hours later, in accordance with Flightradar24.
This file photograph reveals a view of Pink Sq. in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 24, 2026.
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Flight restrictions had been additionally launched at airports in Kaluga, Tambov, Penza, Saratov, Saransk, Cheboksary, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Yaroslavl, Rosaviatsiya stated in posts to Telegram.
The drones intercepted over Moscow had been among the many 426 Ukrainian craft claimed shot down in a single day by the Russian Protection Ministry. Drones had been intercepted over 15 Russian areas and occupied Crimea, the ministry stated in a submit to Telegram.
Among the many targets hit was a Wildberries e-commerce facility within the metropolis of Kotovsk within the Tambov area. Wildberries launched an announcement confirming the newest assault and stated that each one new shipments to the affected middle had been suspended.
Native Gov. Yevgeny Pervyshov stated in a submit to Telegram that the strikes “brought about a fireplace on the Wildberries logistics middle. The fireplace coated an space of greater than 100,000 sq. meters.
Elsewhere, Russian media stories indicated an assault on a significant oil refinery within the Nizhny Novgorod area, within the metropolis of Kstovoa.
Regional Gov. Gleb Nikitin stated in a submit to Telegram that native defenses repelled an assault consisting of greater than 40 drones.
“One industrial facility, a number of residential buildings, and vehicles sustained harm. Specialists are working on the web site the place particles fell, and efforts are underway to mitigate the results of the incident,” Nikitin wrote.
The Ukrainian protection firm Fireplace Level — which produces drones and cruise missiles — stated in a submit to Telegram that its munitions had been used to assault each the Wildberries facility in Tambov and the oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod.
Ukraine’s Basic Workers additionally confirmed the assault on the refinery in Kstovoa, which it stated is operated by the Lukoil company and “is concerned in supplying the Russian Armed Forces.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a submit to social media on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces “focused 16 services in Russia” over the earlier 24 hours, together with oil services, airfields and a missile unit.
“The struggle should return to the place it got here from,” he wrote. “Ukraine is responding to Russian assaults, and doing so in a method that ensures the price of the struggle for the aggressor will inevitably enhance. We’re successfully decreasing Russia’s potential for aggression.”
In Crimea, Sevastopol Gov. Mikhail Razvozhayev stated that three incoming Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles had been shot down over the Black Sea.
Native officers reported that drone assaults elsewhere in Russia killed two folks and injured 9 others. Each of these killed died when a drone crashed into a house within the Lipetsk area, in accordance with native officers. Accidents had been reported in Lipetsk, Belgorod, Voronezh and Tula, native authorities stated.
Ukraine’s air drive in the meantime, stated Russia launched 162 drones into the nation in a single day and into Wednesday morning, of which 134 had been intercepted or in any other case suppressed. The air drive reported confirmed hits by enemy drones in 18 areas.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service stated in posts to Telegram {that a} girl and a 4-year-old lady had been killed in a Russian assault within the northern Chernihiv area, with a 14-year-old lady additionally injured.
The SES additionally reported Russian assaults and subsequent fires within the Sumy and Kherson areas, although stated no casualties had been reported in both location.
ABC Information’ Oleksiy Pshemyskiy and Tom Soufi Burridge contributed to this report.
