The night of August 17-18 was marked by a massive Ukrainian attack on the Moscow region, while a Russian rocket strike killed at least ten people in northeastern Ukraine.
Six hundred and twenty drones were launched against the Moscow region overnight from Monday to Tuesday, the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, announced on Telegram. Russian defense forces destroyed 180 of them between Monday evening and 5:00 a.m. local time. Air traffic around Moscow was briefly suspended. Three people were injured, including a 10-year-old child, according to Governor Andrei Vorobiov.
A drone also struck a warehouse belonging to e-commerce giant Wildberries. The company's press office confirmed that one of its "logistics complexes" had sustained "minor damage."
On the Ukrainian side, the situation is far more deadly. A Russian rocket strike killed at least ten people and wounded eight others in Pecheniguy, a town located about 60 kilometers from Kharkiv. The head of the region's military administration, Oleg Synegubov, stated on Telegram that rescue operations were still underway. Houses, vehicles, a post office, and a shop were damaged.
The Ukrainian Air Force, for its part, indicated that Russia had launched 147 drones that same night, 111 of which were shot down or intercepted. Last week, it announced it would cease publishing detailed figures on Russian ballistic missile strikes, weapons that Ukraine is finding increasingly difficult to neutralize.
The escalation is part of a pattern that has hardened in recent months. On Sunday, a wave of several hundred drone strikes killed 12 people in Russia, while Russian airstrikes killed seven in Ukraine. According to a report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, the previous month was the deadliest for Ukrainian civilians since May 2022, with 437 deaths and 2,610 injuries recorded.
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