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Updated · The Moscow Times · Jul 25
Ukraine Launches 328 Drones Into Russia, Killing 2 in Belgorod and Reaching Yekaterinburg
Updated
Updated · The Moscow Times · Jul 25

Ukraine Launches 328 Drones Into Russia, Killing 2 in Belgorod and Reaching Yekaterinburg

3 articles · Updated · The Moscow Times · Jul 25

Summary

  • Russia said its air defenses intercepted 328 Ukrainian drones overnight, while attacks killed two people in Belgorod and reached Yekaterinburg in the Urals.
  • Nearly 200 drones were aimed at the Moscow region, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, underscoring the scale of one of Ukraine’s broadest strikes deep inside Russia.
  • In Yekaterinburg, drones sparked a parking-lot fire, forced an air raid alert that halted the Russian Athletics Championships, and briefly shut a Wildberries logistics center before operations resumed.
  • In Tyumen, more than 2,000 kilometers from Ukraine’s border, authorities said drones hit an oil refinery with annual capacity of about 8 million metric tons.
  • The barrage followed a Ukrainian strike a day earlier on a factory in Kirov that killed five people, showing Kyiv’s expanding reach against Russian industrial and logistics targets.

Insights

With oil refineries ablaze, how severely are these escalating deep-strike tactics crippling Russia's war economy and domestic stability?
How is Ukraine sustaining massive drone swarms to penetrate deep into Russia, and what does this mean for Moscow's air defenses?
As commercial hubs become targets, how will the increasing frequency of drone barrages reshape the daily lives of Russian civilians?