Ukraine Targets Moscow With Large-Scale Drone Attack

Russian officials said Ukraine attacked Moscow before dawn on Tuesday with its largest long-range drone bombardment of the war, as both sides stepped up attacks ahead of talks intended to end three years of fighting.

Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said the attack was the largest against the city since the start of the war more than three years ago. At least two people were killed and 14 others were injured, the Russian authorities said.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have shot down at least 91 drones in the region around Moscow and more than 240 drones directed at other targets across the country. The Ukrainian military did not have any immediate comment on the strikes.

In Moscow, at least one residential building was damaged, with its roof charred, after a drone explosion. All four international airports, serving a metropolitan area of 21 million, were forced to suspend operations temporarily because of the attack, the country’s aviation watchdog said.

The predawn strikes — just hours before high-level delegations from Kyiv and the United States were scheduled to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss a possible path toward ending the war — appeared intended to serve as a reminder that despite suffering attacks and enduring huge losses, Ukraine continues to expand its capacity to hit back at Russia.

Ukraine has proposed an immediate truce in the air, saying it would immediately stop long-range strikes into Russia if Moscow agreed to an equivalent halt.