Key facts
- Ukraine reportedly struck an oil depot and a logistics center in Moscow Oblast with drones.
- Photos and videos show thick smoke rising over Podolsk, south of Moscow, after a strike on an oil depot.
- A Wildberries fulfillment center and a residential building were also reportedly hit in the Moscow region.
- Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin claimed 58 Ukrainian drones were downed while approaching the capital.
- Ukraine has intensified its long-range strikes on Russian military, industrial, and energy targets.
Ukrainian forces reportedly launched a drone attack on Moscow Oblast overnight, striking an oil depot and a logistics center, according to Russian Telegram media channels. Photos and videos posted to social media purport to show thick black smoke rising over the city of Podolsk, located about 40 kilometers south of the Kremlin, following a strike on an oil depot. Another fire was reported at a warehouse belonging to the major Russian online retailer "Wildberries." Monitoring channels reported one of the company's fulfilment centers was struck in the town of Kolyedino, just south of Podolsk. Elsewhere in the region, a fire was reported at a residential building in the city of Domodedovo following a purported drone strike. The extent of the damage caused was not immediately clear. Amid the reported attack on Russia's capital region, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin claimed 58 Ukrainian drones were downed while approaching the capital. Videos posted by local residents appear to show long-range strike drones flying over the region. Ukraine has intensified its long-range strike campaign against military, industrial, and energy targets inside Russia in recent months, with drones repeatedly reaching Moscow and other regions hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border. In response, Russia has bolstered air defenses in the capital, deploying new Pantsir-SMD-E air defense systems on the rooftops of civilian buildings in Moscow. Kyiv considers oil facilities to be valid military targets, as the energy sites provide fuel and funding for the Kremlin's war machine. Ukraine has been waging an increasingly successful deep strike campaign against Russian oil infrastructure, striking oil depots, disrupting production at major facilities, and in some cases halting operations indefinitely.