Dozens of drones target Moscow for third time in recent days — video

Monitoring Telegram channels published videos showing drones over Moscow and the surrounding region. Exilenova+ wrote that a new combined attack had begun, with UAVs approaching Moscow from different directions.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote that Russian air defenses had allegedly “shot down” about 35 UAVs flying toward Moscow during the day on June 19 and reported falling drone “debris.”

Russian media reported that Sheremetyevo Airport was sending and receiving flights “by agreement.”

“Moscow stability now means drones in the sky, because Russians and Muscovites chose Putin, who brought the war into their homes,” said Andriy Kovalenko, head of the National Security and Defense Council’s Center for Countering Disinformation.

The latest UAV attack on Moscow is the third in recent days.

Attack on Moscow on June 18

Moscow came under a large-scale drone attack on the morning of June 18. Sobyanin said Russian air defenses had allegedly “shot down” about 200 drones flying toward the Russian capital.

Ukraine’s defense forces later confirmed that they had again struck Moscow’s largest oil refinery, located in the Kapotnya district about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the Kremlin. Large fires broke out at the plant in at least five locations, and black smoke blanketed Moscow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the strike on the Moscow oil refinery a response to Russia’s attack on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Russian media reported that it was the largest attack on the Russian capital since the start of the war. All Moscow airports imposed restrictions on departures and arrivals.

It was the second attack on the Moscow oil refinery in two days. On June 16, drones from Ukraine’s SBU Security Service damaged the “heart of the plant” — a key primary oil-refining unit. The Moscow plant stopped operating after the previous drone attack.