Moscow Under Drone Attack

Russia said it repelled a record-breaking drone attack overnight into Wednesday, destroying nearly 300 Ukrainian drones across multiple regions, including near the capital. The strike forced Moscow to close its major airports temporarily.

The large-scale drone barrage came just after Ukraine endured its most intense wave of Russian airstrikes since the start of the invasion. Kyiv said Russia launched nearly 1,000 drones and missiles between Saturday and Monday, killing 13 civilians – including three children – on Sunday alone.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that from 9 p.m. on May 27 to 7 a.m. on May 28, air defense systems destroyed or intercepted 296 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.

The drones were reported over the Moscow region and 13 other areas: Bryansk, Belgorod, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kursk, Orel, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, and Tula.

Earlier estimates put the number of drones at 145, but the new figure marks the largest single drone assault on Russian territory since the full-scale war began in 2022.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 33 drones were shot down as they approached the capital. In the wider Moscow region, Governor Andrei Vorobyov said 42 drones were intercepted across 12 municipalities. Three residential buildings were damaged in Chekhov, but no casualties were reported.

Russia reports Ukrainian drone attacks often, but officials said this one was unusual in size. Moscow, located hundreds of kilometers from the border with Ukraine, is rarely the target of such a major strike.

Hal Turner Analysis

This is great. The country with the world's largest nuclear arsenal is being existentially threatened and a bunch of retards who don't understand or believe in what a world nuclear war will be, are just fine with it. This kind of stupidity is how and why the world will end.

Russia has never committed even half of its military might against Ukraine. If they had, Ukraine would have been overwhelmed long ago and NATO would have immediately stepped in.

Putin chose the slow bleed rather than frighten NATO into doing something rash. Putin's restraint is both calculating and proof that he is a rational leader. He knows occupying a country almost as big as Texas is both expensive and fruitless.

Zelensky, however, is leaving him no choice but to destroy Ukraine as a nation so that NATO will understand when Russia draws a Red Line, they mean what they say.