Ukrainian drones kill two in Moscow region strike

Ukrainian drone attacks overnight on Tuesday killed two people and injured nine more in the Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital, Governor Andrei Vorobyov said. More than 650 Ukrainian drones were launched in a wave headed towards Moscow overnight, the city's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said earlier on Tuesday, adding that most of them were downed.meduza.io+1

The toll matters because it marks a lethal strike on the capital's own region rather than a distant front. Vorobyov's update, reported on October 6, raised the count from an earlier statement of one dead and six injured, and added damage across seven municipalities. The attack came as drone strikes on Russian territory have grown in scale and reach.

Two dead and nine injured

The dead included a 71-year-old man pulled from under the rubble of a house and a 20-year-old man found in a nearby village, Vorobyov said. The 20-year-old was a resident of the village of Radumlya in the Solnechnogorsk district. Residents of Istra and the Volokolamsk and Domodedovo districts were also injured, and three of them are hospitalised.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 650 drones began flying toward the city and the region on the evening of October 5, and air defences shot down a large share of them at distant approaches. Air defences destroyed 105 of the drones on approach to Moscow, Sobyanin said. He later said air defences had shot down another 29 Ukrainian drones flying toward Moscow.unionesarda.it

Air defence forces and electronic warfare systems destroyed 185 Ukrainian drones over the Moscow region, Vorobyov said. That figure counts drones downed over the region itself, separate from the 105 and 29 Sobyanin attributed to approaches on Moscow. Local media reported the swarm as the largest nighttime attack the region has seen in two years.

How the drone wave was counted

Forty-seven private homes were damaged in seven municipalities, Vorobyov said. In Istra, 10 private homes were damaged in Safontyevo, Torlopovo, Gorki, and Yadromino, along with outbuildings and two cars. In Domodedovo, a private home caught fire in the village of Lobanovo, and another was destroyed in Barybino, Meduza reported. A warehouse operated by Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries was also set ablaze in the Moscow region, local authorities were cited as saying by the TASS state news agency. The head of the city of Domodedovo, south of Moscow and home to the country's third-largest airport of the same name, said work was being done to restore electricity to villages that had been hit by drones.

Homes, warehouse and oil depot

Witness photos and videos cited by Ukrainian monitoring Telegram channels and the independent Telegram channel Astra claimed a fire broke out at the linear production and dispatching station Volodarskaya in the Moscow region. Open sources describe it as the largest oil depot in the region and a key node for supplying petroleum products to Moscow and the surrounding area.

The Volodarskaya station is part of JSC AK Transnefteprodukt. Local authorities have not reported the fire, so the blaze remains unconfirmed by official statements. Meduza's headline described the depot as the region's largest oil depot set ablaze, while its body text attributed the claim to witness material and noted the absence of an official report.

The strike shows Ukrainian drones reaching the Moscow region in numbers large enough to overwhelm part of the air defence response, with 185 destroyed over the region and 105 downed approaching the capital. Electricity restoration work was under way in Domodedovo's hit villages, the city's head said, as the region counted its dead and damaged homes.