MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. Last night’s Ukrainian drone attack on Russia was one of the largest since the start of 2026, calculations by TASS based on data from the Russian Defense Ministry indicate.
The attack resulted in a fatality, casualties and ground damage.
TASS has compiled key details about the attack’s impact.
Scope
- Last night’s Ukrainian drone attack on Russia was one of the largest since the start of 2026, calculations by TASS based on data from the Russian Defense Ministry indicate.
- Over the past night, as many as 791 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were shot down or intercepted.
- Namely, drones were intercepted and destroyed over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov, Tula, Moscow, and Krasnodar Regions, the Republic of Crimea, the Sea of Azov, and the Black Sea.
- An even larger attack was thwarted on Saturday night when Russia intercepted and destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones.
- A previous large-scale attack was recorded on June 26 when 660 UAVs were downed across Russian regions.
- On Monday night and Tuesday morning, air defenses and jamming systems repelled a major drone attack on the Moscow Region as more than 150 UAVs were shot down, according to Governor Andrey Vorobyev.
- Air defense systems downed 65 Ukrainian UAVs over the Voronezh Region during the past night, with no casualties or damage reported, Governor Alexander Gusev said.
- Air defenses destroyed 25 drones over the Kaluga Region, Governor Vladislav Shapsha wrote on Max channel.
- More than 80 drones were destroyed in seven districts of southern Russia’s Rostov Region last night, Governor Yury Slyusar said.
- The Russian Defense Ministry’s air defense units destroyed 33 Ukrainian UAVs over the Tula Region, Governor Dmitry Milyayev wrote on Max channel.
Moscow Region targeted
- In the Ramenskoye District, a 10-year-old girl was injured after a drone crashed into a private home, according to Vorobyev.
- She sustained a shrapnel wound to her hand and was taken to hospital.
- In the Bogorodskoye Municipality, a woman sought medical attention after being injured by falling UAV fragments.
- A 27-year-old man was injured in Kolomna.
- The most serious damage was recorded in the Pavlovsky Posad District, where a private home was destroyed by fire in the village of Kuznetsy.
- Also in Pavlovsky Posad, the roof of an apartment building caught fire, prompting an evacuation. No one has been reported injured.
- Another fire was reported in a building on May 1 Street in the municipality, the governor added.
- Also, two private homes in an allotment garden community were damaged in the Bogorodskoye Municipality.
- A fire in a guest house was reported in Noginsk.
- A retail pavilion near the Globus shopping center caught fire after UAV debris landed in Kolomna.
- Also, a civil registry office, a store and windows of a residential building were damaged by falling drone debris there.
- In Elektrostal, a car and a switching yard were damaged.
- A private home in the Ramyenye residential community in the Ramenskoye District was damaged, the governor reported.
- A fire that erupted after a Ukrainian drone hit a Wildberries warehouse in Noginsk has been contained.
- Minor damage to a Wildberries logistics center was recorded following a drone attack on the Moscow Region, Wildberries & Russ (RWB) said.
- Goods were not damaged, a company spokesman said.
Regional impact
- Several houses and cars were damaged in a cottage area in the Aleksandrovsk Municipality in central Russia’s Vladimir Region following a drone attack, Governor Alexander Avdeyev wrote on Max.
- No casualties have been reported, he noted.
- Three people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Ryazan Region, Governor Pavel Malkov said.
- Of them, two have been hospitalized.
- Three private homes were damaged near Ryazan, emergency services are working at the scene, Malkov specified.
- Three non-residential buildings were damaged by drone fragments in the Maly Yaroslavets Municipality in the Kaluga Region, according to preliminary information.
- One civilian was killed and 16 others sought medical assistance following a drone attack on Energodar, the satellite city of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Mayor Maxim Pukhov said.
- Three of those injured are in a condition of moderate severity.
- The people were attacked while waiting for a bus at a bus stop at around 6:00 a.m. Moscow time (3:00 a.m. GMT), Pukhov specified.
- Windows of a school building, two apartment buildings and one private home were damaged as a drone hit the Tambov Municipality, the local government said in a post on Max channel.