{"id":36829,"date":"2026-05-17T19:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/russia-four-killed-and-21-injured-in-mass-ukrainian-drone-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:25:30","slug":"russia-four-killed-and-21-injured-in-mass-ukrainian-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/russia-four-killed-and-21-injured-in-mass-ukrainian-drone-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Four killed and 21 injured in mass Ukrainian drone attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russia said today that four people were killed and 21 others were wounded in a mass Ukrainian drone attack that targeted several regions, while state news agency TASS reported that Moscow experienced its “largest” attack in more than a year, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Telegram, the Russian Defense Ministry said its air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 556 Ukrainian drones over several regions, such as Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Bryansk, Voronezh, Tula, Smolensk, Pskov, Lipetsk, Tver and Rostov, as well as Krasnodar Krai, Moscow Region, annexed Crimea and the Black and Azov Seas.<\/p>\n

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Telegram that air defenses shot down 81 drones approaching the capital overnight.<\/p>\n

He said 12 people were killed. wounded in the attacks, mostly construction workers near a checkpoint at a Moscow oil refinery.<\/p>\n

“Refinery operations were not interrupted. Three buildings were damaged,” Sobyanin said, adding that 120 drones had been intercepted over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Russian social network Max that three people were killed and four others were wounded. in a drone attack.<\/p>\n

In Russia’s Belgorod region, one person was killed and two others were injured over the past 24 hours, the regional operational headquarters said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

In the Kursk region, three people were injured as a result of Ukrainian attacks in the border area, regional governor Aleksandr Hinshtein said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities accused Moscow of launching 287 drones overnight and has injured 22 people in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian Air Force shot down 279 of the drones, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

Dnipropetrovsk Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said eight people were injured in drone and artillery attacks in four districts of the region.<\/p>\n

In Kharkiv region, seven people were injured. over the past 24 hours, while seven wounded were also reported in Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n

Independent verification of these claims is difficult due to the ongoing war.<\/p>\n

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