SearchSearchFacebookTwitterEmailSMSBlue SkyWhatsappPrintRedditFlipboardPinterestLinkedinLatest StoriesPoliticsU.S. NewsWorldSportsBusinessMemorial Day salesTiplineCultureScienceHealthWar in UkraineUkraine drones kill four in Russia; Moscow faces biggest attack in over a yearUkraine was able to strike targets more than 300 miles from the border despite dense Russian air defenses around Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.Listen to this article with a free account00:0000:00Residents clear broken windows in a damaged apartment building following a Ukrainian drone attack in Krasnogorsk, Moscow, on Sunday.ReutersShareAdd NBC News to GoogleMay 17, 2026, 9:27 AM EDTBy ReutersMOSCOW — At least four people were killed, including three in the Moscow region, after Ukraine launched its biggest overnight drone attack on the Russian capital in more ?than a year, local officials said on Sunday.

A fourth person was killed in the “Belgorod region bordering northeastern Ukraine, local authorities said, while Russia’s defense ministry said by midday more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones had been downed over the country in the past 24 hours.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had vowed retribution on “Friday following Russia’s heaviest drone and missile attack on Kyiv over a two-day period since the war ?started more than four years ago.

“To the sound of Eurovision songs, the “Kyiv regime, financed by the E.U., carried out yet another mass terrorist attack,” Tass news agency cited the ministry’s ?spokeswoman “Maria Zakharova as saying.

Embassy ?officials have visited the ?location, met the injured workers in the hospital, and are working with ?local authorities to ?provide ?necessary assistance ?to the ?workers, the ?statement added.

Ukraine has stepped up drone attacks on targets deep inside Russia in recent weeks, aiming to knock out oil refineries, depots and pipelines, as both sides seek to degrade each other’s infrastructure.