Ukraine Fired More Than 1,000 Drones at Russia Overnight, Hundreds of Them at Moscow, on the Last Day of Putin's Election. The Capital's Refinery Burned, Three People Died, and Kyiv's Foreign Minister Said: 'Look Out the Kremlin Window, See the Flames Over Moscow, and End This War.'

Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight into Sunday, hundreds of them aimed at Moscow, in what the city's mayor called the largest attack on the Russian capital since the full-scale war began. The strike landed on the third and final day of voting in Russia's State Duma election, the first parliamentary vote since the 2022 invasion, and it left the Moscow oil refinery burning, a residential building hit and three people dead in the surrounding region.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian air defenses had shot down more than 1,600 drones across the country since Saturday, 450 of them on approach to the capital. "Nevertheless, several drones reached the territory of the Moscow Refinery, and one struck a residential building," he said. Russia's Ministry of Defense put its own overnight tally at 1,110 Ukrainian drones destroyed. Sobyanin said the assault "was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections" and insisted it had failed. Smoke from the refinery, in the city's southeast, was visible across Moscow for much of the morning.

The deaths came in the village of Sofyino, south of the capital, where the regional governor said a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman were killed and a third person later died in hospital. Twenty people were wounded, including three children, according to the governor. NBC News reported that 15 people were hospitalized, among them two teenagers aged 14 and 15.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the overnight barrage combined drones with the country's domestically built Flamingo and Pelican missiles and was aimed at "key enterprises of Russia's oil industry and aggressor logistics facilities." "These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine," he said. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha was blunter: "Look out the Kremlin window, see the flames over Moscow — and end this war." Russia answered with strikes on the Kyiv region that killed three children and a woman, Kyiv officials said.

The timing was not subtle. President Vladimir Putin had cast the three-day Duma vote as a referendum on the war, telling Russians that "participation in the elections is our joint contribution to Russia's victory." Election officials reported turnout above 45% by late Sunday morning. Nearly every anti-war candidate had been kept off the ballot; Nikolai Rybakov, leader of the liberal Yabloko party, said he deliberately spoiled his own ballot by writing "For peace" across it.

The attack came as Washington and Kyiv moved closer on several fronts at once. President Trump and Zelenskyy have agreed to meet in New York during the U.N. General Assembly this week, the State Department has approved a $2.68 billion sale of air-defense equipment to Ukraine, and Trump signed new Russia sanctions legislation into law. Ukraine has spent the past year building out a long-range strike campaign against Russian refineries, ports and rail hubs, arguing that cutting Moscow's oil revenue is the fastest route to a negotiated end to the war. Sunday's strike was the largest single expression of that strategy yet, and it put the flames where every Russian voter could see them.