Ukraine said its aerial weapons hit targets in the Moscow region over the weekend, in a deep-strike campaign that reached into the Russian capital’s wider security perimeter as Russia launched fresh drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities overnight. Kyiv’s general staff said the weapons used included the RS-1 Bars jet-powered UAV, the Firepoint FP-1 winged drone and the Bars-SM Gladiator drone.
The strikes were quickly framed by Kyiv as deliberate pressure on Russia’s war machine. Ukraine’s SBU security service said the Angstrom plant in Zelenograd was struck, with a fire recorded on the site, and described the enterprise as a producer of microelectronics, radio electronics, optical systems and robotics for Russian military needs. It also said the Solnechnogorskaya pumping station in the Moscow region was hit and that a fire was reported there.
Those claims matter because both sites sit inside the infrastructure that keeps Russia’s war running. The SBU said Angstrom specialises in hi-tech products and microcircuits for high-precision weapons, while the Solnechnogorskaya station is a key part of the ring oil pipeline around Moscow and is used to pump, store and ship gasoline and diesel fuel, including for the Russian army. Russian authorities said several of the weekend hits were the result of “drone debris,” a phrase they often use when describing intercepted aircraft.
The Moscow-region strikes came after a brutal overnight exchange in the opposite direction. Over Sunday night, Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles, targeting Odesa and Dnipro. In Odesa, drones hit residential buildings, a school and a kindergarten, injuring an 11-year-old boy and a 59-year-old man, according to Serhiy Lysak, the head of the local military administration. In Dnipro, three people were injured, though the injury report in the provided account was unfinished.
On Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said taking the war to Moscow was “entirely justified” and said that “much has been accomplished this year, and a shift in the balance of activity on the frontlines is noticeable.” His remarks matched the broader pattern described by Ukraine: long-range drone strikes now reach far beyond the front line and are being presented as part of a sustained campaign against Russian military and industrial targets.
Agence France-Presse said its journalists were granted access to an undisclosed location from which Ukraine launched its long-range drones, describing the attack as one of the largest pummellings of Russia during the conflict. Early on Monday, Russia’s defence ministry claimed it had shot down 3,124 Ukrainian drones over the past week, a figure that underscores how intense the aerial campaign has become even as each side tries to portray the other’s strikes as failing or fragmentary. The result is a war increasingly fought over factories, fuel and the skies above them.
