Major Ukrainian strike on Moscow sets Wildberries hub ablaze, grounds flights

Air defenses downed 201 drones over the Moscow region, the city's mayor said. LONDON -- Russian air defenses in the Moscow region shot down at least 201 Ukrainian drones overnight and into Sunday morning, according to a statement from the city's Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, in what appeared to be Ukraine's largest wave of drone attacks on the Russian capital of the war to date. The 201 drones downed were among around 600 craft that were launched in the direction of Moscow between Saturday evening and early Sunday morning, Sobyanin said in a series of statements posted to Telegram. Sobyanin did not report any damage or casualties, though said that emergency responders had been deployed to the site of fallen debris. Moscow's regional Gov.

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Scoop News DeskMoscow · Published Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 10:46 AM UTCUpdated Monday, August 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM UTC

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Two more people were killed in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, local officials there said. "When North Korean ballistic missiles destroy infrastructure and take lives here, in Europe, we cannot allow European interceptors to simply remain in storage," Zelenskyy wrote, in another appeal to foreign partners to bolster Kyiv's thinning stocks of air defense munitions. "Protecting lives is essential.

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