Ukraine hits Russia with 600 drones

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia, killing no fewer than six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war on Sunday, August 16, 2026.

Ukrainian military ⁠said Kyiv hit a missile fuel production facility in ‌Russia’s ⁠Rostov ‌region overnight.

“The company manufactures solid ‌rocket propellant for multiple ‌launch rocket systems, as well as for a range of missile systems and airborne weapons,” the ⁠military said ⁠on Telegram.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight.

600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.

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Governor Andrey Vorobyov said an 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region.

He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a blaze at a warehouse belonging to Russian retail giant Wildberries in the town of Podolsk, where images shared by Russian media outlets showed columns of black smoke.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said its ‌forces ⁠have ‌taken the ⁠village of Pershomarivka in Ukraine’s ‌eastern Donetsk region, ‌as well as Kudiivka in the northeastern Kharkiv region, state news agency TASS reported.

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