Ukraine Fires More Than 400 Drones at the Moscow Region in One of the War's Biggest Raids

Ukraine launched more than 400 long-range drones at the Moscow region overnight into Monday, July 20, in one of the largest aerial assaults of the three-and-a-half-year war, setting an oil depot ablaze and tearing into two of the sprawling logistics complexes that ring the Russian capital. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defenses shot down 85 drones on the immediate approaches to the city, while Russia's Defense Ministry claimed to have intercepted 381 drones across several regions before dawn.

The barrage lit up the sky south of Moscow, where an oil depot in Podolsk's Lvovsky district caught fire and the Yuzhnye Vorota industrial park near Domodedovo airport — a distribution hub spanning more than 650,000 square meters — was struck repeatedly. A fulfillment center belonging to Wildberries, Russia's dominant online retailer, burned in the town of Kolyedino just south of Podolsk. The independent monitoring channel Astra reported at least five separate fire sites across the Moscow region, and said six people, including three foreign nationals, were hospitalized with blast injuries. Local officials counted at least 10 wounded in all, with seven of them near Domodedovo.

"Our long-range operations produced results against logistics facilities and an oil depot," Zelensky said, noting that the targets sat more than 400 kilometers — roughly 250 miles — from the Ukrainian border. The strikes fit a deliberate Ukrainian strategy of reaching deep inside Russia to choke the fuel and freight that keep the Kremlin's war machine moving. Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries have roughly doubled since the start of 2026, disrupting domestic fuel production and, at times, forcing Moscow to curb exports.

The assault landed at a combustible moment on both sides of the front. Russia has escalated its own campaign, pounding Kyiv with a ballistic-missile barrage that involved dozens of weapons and striking the cargo ship Golden Leo near Odesa in an attack that killed 10 people. Domestically, Zelensky is grappling with rare street protests after removing his drone-pioneering defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, in a shake-up of the military leadership that has divided supporters at home.

Flights were disrupted at Domodedovo and other Moscow-area airports as authorities imposed temporary ground stops during the raid, a now-routine consequence of Ukraine's deepening reach. Neither side signaled any appetite for a pause. With Russian missiles still falling on Ukrainian cities and Ukrainian drones now regularly reaching the outskirts of Moscow, the war's long-range phase appears only to be intensifying, turning oil depots, warehouses and rail yards hundreds of miles from the front into nightly battlegrounds.