Russia shot down 605 Ukrainian drones during the night over its territory and the annexed Crimean Peninsula, the defence ministry said Thursday (August 6, 2026).

“During the night… air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 605 Ukrainian aerial drones,” the ministry said in a statement.

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The Ministry flagged attacks in the Tver region about 180 kilometres (110 miles) northwest of Moscow, where local authorities reported a logistics centre belonging to the e-commerce giant Wildberries had been damaged.

Regional Governor Vitaly Korolyov said air defence systems had repelled the Ukrainian attack.

“As a result of the fall of debris from one of the drones, the facade of the Wildberries logistics centre was slightly damaged,” he wrote on Telegram, adding that no one had been wounded.

Ukraine has repeatedly struck sites belonging to Wildberries — a popular online commerce platform often described as Russia’s Amazon — across the country since mid-July.

Mikhail Yevrayev, governor of the Yaroslavl region around 250 kilometres north of Moscow, reported the “most massive attack” against his region, saying 92 drones had been shot down.

Debris caused fires in houses and damaged cars, he added on Telegram.

More than four years after the start of Russia’s large-scale offensive against Ukraine, diplomacy is at a standstill and the two countries are ramping up long-range strikes, causing a growing number of civilian casualties.

Ukraine on Tuesday (August 4, 2026) accused Russia of committing a war crime after a ​video was released showing a drone chasing down and wounding a vegetable seller in ⁠the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.

Footage released by Ukrainian police shows the drone pursuing a man around a van being used as a street stand before exploding as he dives for cover behind the vehicle. Police said the man in his ‌50s survived but suffered shock and shrapnel injuries.

Ukrainian officials later identified him only as a 52-year-old called Yurii and released a video interview with him from a hospital ward.

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“Today, many ‌were shocked by yet another video of the drone ‘safari’ Russians are carrying out against civilians ‌in Kherson,” ⁠President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X, saying that “Russia has gone mad” and calling ⁠for more pressure on Moscow and strong security guarantees for Ukraine.

“We must act and support life in ways that force Russia to think seriously about peace rather than expanding the range of its drones.”

Reuters verified the location using buildings, the road layout and vegetation ​that matched satellite and archive imagery. The date ‌could not be independently confirmed, but Ukraine’s police and Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the incident happened on Tuesday (August 4, 2026).

Russia’s Defence Ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment on the incident.

‘It was terryfying’

The vegetable seller went to Kherson in the morning to sell produce, said Oleksandr Prokudin, head ‌of the Kherson regional military administration. Prokudin released the video interview with the man on the Telegram ​app.

“I only just put up the umbrella and started unloading the boxes. My wife was there, too. Then we heard it buzzing but could not even see it. ⁠It came from somewhere behind the market, from those bushes over there, and flew in very low,” said Yurii, sitting in a hospital ward.

“It is open steppe. There is nowhere to go. It is terrifying, of course. ‌Really terrifying.”

On the video, Yurii showed his wounds on both legs and also on his back. His wife ran off and was not injured, he said.

Mr. Sybiha said the attack formed part of a deliberate Russian campaign to intimidate civilians. “This barbaric Russian war crime in Kherson demands international condemnation and justice, but thousands of similar crimes never come to the public eye,” he wrote on Telegram. In July, the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said it had documented 1,396 civilian deaths and 7,978 injuries in the first six ‌months of 2026, marking a 37% increase from 2025 and more than double the figures from 2024.

It said that the ​surge in civilian casualties was primarily driven by intensifying Russian long-range missile and drone strikes targeting cities far from the front lines.

Ukraine is also attacking Russia with drones and ⁠long-range missiles, many of which have caused civilian casualties, Russian authorities say. Russia on Monday (August 3, 2026) accused Ukraine of terrorism after ⁠seven people, including three children, were killed at its Black Sea holiday resort of Gelendzhik in what it said was a deliberate Ukrainian drone attack on civilians.

A Ukrainian official said that the ‌drone only fell on the beach in Gelendzhik because it was shot down by Russian air defences, adding that “Ukraine uses its weapons exclusively against the Russian military-industrial complex and economic infrastructure facilities”.

Both Russia and Ukraine ​deny targeting civilians in the war triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

FS A Russian aerial attack killed one person and wounded nine others in Kharkiv city in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said on Saturday (June 20, 2026).

Moscow and Kyiv have escalated attacks on each other in recent weeks, as U.S.-led talks on ending the conflict that began in February 2022 remain effectively frozen.

Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov reported early on Saturday (June 20, 2026) that a woman was trapped under rubble after a “guided aerial bomb strike” hit a residential area.

“Sadly, during search and rescue operations, the body of a person who was killed was found under the rubble of the destroyed building,” Mr. Terekhov said in an update on Telegram.

The strike on Kharkiv’s Kholodnogirsky district wounded nine people, with five of them hospitalised, according to Oleg Synegubov, the head of the regional military administration.

Authorities in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, reported that a 72-year-old woman was wounded in a drone strike in Zelenivka.

Three people were also wounded in drone attacks in Kherson’s Korabelny district, authorities said.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Saturday (June 20, 2026) morning that its air defences shot down 187 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles across the country overnight.

The latest unmanned aerial strikes come two days after Ukraine launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow, sparking fires, hitting a major oil refinery and forcing evacuations at the country’s largest airport.

Ukraine hit a Moscow oil refinery for a second time in a week and disrupted commercial flights at Moscow airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s invasion more than four years ago, Russian officials said on Thursday (June 18, 2026).

The Russian Defence Ministry said that its air defences overnight shot down 555 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions, with almost 200 intercepted as they were approaching the Russian capital.

Several drones hit the Moscow Oil Refinery on the southeastern outskirts of the city, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.

The Russian Transport Ministry said that flights from four Moscow airports were halted.

The attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had held “an important coordination call” with U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron that may “bring about significant change.” Mr. Zelenskyy said on Wednesday (June 17, 2026) his country had won key pledges of further support from world leaders attending the G7 summit in France.

“These last few days were very important for Ukraine because it is the reunification of the G7 around Ukraine,” Mr. Macron told reporters as he and Mr. Trump left the Palace of Versailles near Paris.

“And now we will continue to advance to help Ukraine to resist and to build up its capacity to defend itself and capacity to counterattack,” Mr. Macron said.

The attack comes as President Vladimir Putin is in Kazan, 700 kilometres (430 miles) east of Moscow, hosting leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as Russia seeks to bolster business and other ties.

The two-day meeting is set to consider ways to expand Russia’s “strategic partnership” with ASEAN nations that include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, East Timor and Vietnam, according to Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov.

“A drone attack ‌killed seven people and wounded ​another 11 ⁠in a Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region ‌on Wednesday (June 3, 2026),” the Kremlin-installed head of the ‌region said.

Denis Pushilin, ‌posting ⁠on the ⁠Telegram messaging app, said the drone hit a passenger bus ​travelling between ‌Moscow and Simferopol in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Russia’s State Investigative Committee has opened ‌a criminal investigation under ​the category of “a terrorist attack,” the TASS ⁠news agency said, citing the Committee’s spokeswoman, Svetlana ‌Petrenko.

Russia conducted a massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv on Tuesday (June 2, 2026) which Moscow said was ‌in response to a deadly ​attack on a dormitory in Russian-controlled Luhansk. ⁠Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said ⁠another Russian attack may be ‌imminent.

At least three people ​were killed in a Ukrainian drone ‌attack in the Moscow ​region and 12 were ⁠injured in other drone strikes, authorities said on Sunday (May 17, 2026), as Russia tries ‌to fend off massive aerial attacks.

The “technology” of ‌Moscow’s oil refinery was ‌not ⁠damaged in the overnight attack, ⁠while three houses were damaged, said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, adding that ​more than ‌120 drones had been downed in the previous 24 hours.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said 556 drones ‌had been downed over the ​country, including the Moscow region, overnight and ⁠into the morning.

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Moscow regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov posted on the ‌Telegram messaging app that a woman had died when a home was hit in the city of Khimki, north of Moscow, while a ‌rescue team was working to recover one ​person from the debris.

Two men died in the ⁠village of Pogorelki in the ⁠Mytishchi district, Vorobyov said. Several high-rise residential houses and infrastructure ‌facilities were also damaged, he said.

Russian air defences shot down 347 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday (May 7, 2026), in what appeared to be a major attack after Moscow spurned Kyiv’s ceasefire earlier in the week and tension mounted over safety at Russia’s upcoming Victory Day celebrations.

Incoming drones were destroyed over 20 Russian regions, including Moscow, according to the Defence Ministry, in Ukraine’s second-biggest aerial attack since Russia’s all-out invasion more than four years ago. The largest was last March when it launched 389 drones.

The attack came ahead of Russia’s most important secular holiday, Victory Day, which marks the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Russian authorities have declared a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine for Friday (May 8) and Saturday (May 9).

Ukraine had responded to that with its own suspension of hostilities from midnight on Tuesday (May 5). But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow disregarded the goodwill gesture and launched fresh attacks.

“Russia has not stopped any type of its military activity. Unfortunately, it has not stopped. Ukraine will act symmetrically,” Mr. Zelenskyy said in his regular evening video address on Wednesday (May 6).

He said on Thursday (May 7) on X that Russia’s attacks have been ceaseless, with drones, missiles, artillery shelling and glide bombs hitting civilian areas of Ukraine, including the power grid and rail network.

In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest, a drone strike wounded nine people, including three children, local officials said.

Tension has grown as Russia’s Victory Day celebrations approach and U.S.-led peace efforts gain no traction.

All mobile internet access and text messaging services will be shut down in the Russian capital on May 9, state media reported on Thursday (May 7), citing the country’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media.

Also, a traditional parade in Moscow won’t feature the usual tanks, missiles and other military equipment for the first time in nearly two decades.

Russian authorities say they are concerned about possible Ukrainian attacks, as Kyiv has expanded its long-range drone and missile capabilities.

The Russian Defense Ministry cited the “current operational situation” as a reason for excluding military equipment.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday (May 7) that additional security measures were being taken due to the “rather complex operational situation”.

The measures being taken “are necessary to ensure the safety of citizens, which is an absolute priority,” Peskov told reporters.

The restrictions will include websites on the Russian government’s so-called “white list,” a group of state-approved online services that are kept available during the country’s increasingly common connectivity blackouts.

Home internet and Wi-Fi will be unaffected, officials said.

Ukraine’s air defence shot down 92 of the 102 drones Russia launched overnight, the military said.

Russia maintains a significant advantage in drone numbers, regularly deploying hundreds in a single attack.

A Ukrainian drone attack killed a man and wounded another in the resort city of Tuapse in southern Russia, regional governor Veniamin Kondratiev said on Monday (April 20, 2026).

This is the second assault on the seaport in a matter of days, with drone debris damaging windows in buildings across the city, including apartments, a primary school, kindergarten, museum and church, he added.

“A Ukrainian drone attack damaged the Sterlitamak petrochemical plant deep inside Russia, causing a partial collapse of a water-treatment facility but no injuries,” regional authorities said on Tuesday (November 4, 2025).

“The plant in the Bashkortostan region, some 1,500 km from the Ukrainian border in the Urals Mountains, was operating without interruption,” the head of the Bashkortostan region, Radiy Khabirov, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Mr. Khabirov added that both of the drones involved in the overnight strike were destroyed. The Russian Defence Ministry said in its daily report that in addition to the two drones downed over the Bashkortostan region, its defence systems destroyed 83 drones over seven other Russian regions.

The administration of the city of Sterlitamak, where the plant is located, said that all five workers inside were not injured.

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine. Kyiv has stepped up long-range drone and missile strikes inside Russia, hitting oil refineries, depots, and logistics hubs, which it says feed the Kremlin’s war machine.

Moscow calls the attacks terrorism, but Ukraine says they are legitimate self-defence in the war that Russia launched in February 2022.