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Here's how Moscow burns after a drone attack PHOTOS

18.06.2026 / 12:08

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Overnight, Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow and the Moscow region. According to eyewitness reports, fires broke out in various districts of the Russian capital, and thick smoke rose over the city. 

Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

Russian authorities reported that 137 drones were intercepted on approach to Moscow.

Such a view from an electric train was seen this morning in the Vykhino district in southeastern Moscow. Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

Several drones managed to reach the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya in the northeast of the city. 

Video screenshot: astrapress / telegram

Video screenshot: astrapress / telegram

Fire on the territory of the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya. Video screenshot: exilenovaplus / telegram

Fire on the territory of the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya. Video screenshot: exilenovaplus / telegram

Photo: exilenovaplus / telegram

Residents of Kapotnya and neighboring districts complain of an "almost black sky". 

Sky over southeastern Moscow. Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

In Zhukovsky, a city southeast of Moscow, a drone hit a multi-story residential building. The seventh entrance on the 25th floor, near the exit to the fire escape, was damaged. Two balcony slabs collapsed. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.

House in Zhukovsky. Video screenshot: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

Debris from one of the drones fell on the territory of the Sadovod shopping center in Moscow, damaging one of the buildings.

Sadovod shopping center is on fire. Video screenshot: astrapress / telegram

In Kotelniki, after the debris fell, the roof of the Belaya Dacha shopping center caught fire.

Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

The consequences of the attack were also noted in Chekhov, Kryukovo, Elektrostal, and Pavlovsky Posad — settlements in the Moscow region. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties there.

Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

A large traffic jam formed on Besedinskoye Highway in southeastern Moscow this morning.

Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

Due to the drone attack, 527 flights were canceled and delayed at all Moscow airports.

Photo: ostorozhno_novosti / telegram

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