{"id":14478,"date":"2026-07-20T07:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/massive-drone-strike-hits-moscow-as-russia-intensifies-attacks-on-kyiv\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T07:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:14:32","slug":"massive-drone-strike-hits-moscow-as-russia-intensifies-attacks-on-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/massive-drone-strike-hits-moscow-as-russia-intensifies-attacks-on-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Drone Strike Hits Moscow as Russia Intensifies Attacks on Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that over 400 drones targeted the capital region, while Ukraine faced its largest ballistic missile assault of the ongoing invasion, leaving one person dead and sixteen injured.  <\/p>\n<h4>The Assault on Moscow<\/h4>\n<p>Between 8:30 PM and 5:00 AM, more than 400 hostile drones were directed toward the Moscow region. According to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, air defense forces neutralized the majority of these drones far from the city, while 85 were destroyed as they approached Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Air Transport Agency reported disruptions to Moscow\u2019s airport operations, and residents were warned of potential internet connectivity outages. Governor Andrei Vorobyov confirmed damage to private homes and civil infrastructure in Domodedovo, Podolsk, and Odintsovo. One person was injured in a house fire, and another was wounded on a highway.<\/p>\n<p>A hospital in Domodedovo admitted six people with blast-related injuries. Fires were also reported at a fuel depot in Podolsk and the Yuzhny Vorota industrial complex in Domodedovo. Additionally, significant damage occurred at the Koledino logistics center in Podolsk, a key distribution hub for the e-commerce giant Wildberries.<\/p>\n<h4>Escalation and Retaliation<\/h4>\n<p>Over the weekend, Kyiv suffered an intense Russian missile strike, described as the most powerful ballistic attack on the capital during the entire invasion. Russia launched over 40 Iskander-M, Zircon, and S-400 missiles in a 40-minute window, striking multiple districts and resulting in one fatality and sixteen injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned the event as a brutal terrorist attack and urged allies to expedite the 21st EU sanctions package and supply additional air defense interceptors. President Volodymyr Zelensky summarized the week&#8217;s intensity, noting that Russia deployed approximately 1,450 combat drones, over 1,640 guided bombs, and 99 missiles across numerous Ukrainian regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that over 400 drones targeted the capital region, while Ukraine faced its largest ballistic missile assault of the ongoing invasion, leaving one person dead and sixteen injured. The Assault on Moscow Between 8:30 PM and 5:00 AM, more than 400 hostile drones were directed toward the Moscow region. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-and-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}