Ukraine says it used a newly developed ballistic missile in the attacks, which also targeted other parts of Russia.

Vladimir Putin’s war has come roaring back to his doorstep as Ukraine hammered Moscow with its largest-ever drone barrage. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that its forces shot down more than 1,900 drones,

Ukraine has carried out its largest reported drone attack on Moscow and surrounding areas as Russia wrapped up its parliamentary elections.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia hammered Kyiv with drones in daylight attacks on Wednesday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared for meetings with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.

The final day of Russia’s three-day State Duma election coincided with a mass Ukrainian drone strike on Russia that Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin described as “unprecedented.” Yet in Moscow Oblast, air raid sirens and SMS warnings were not activated during the strike.

According to Sobyanin, the massive aerial movement heading toward the capital was recorded between 8 p.m. on Sept. 17 and 7 a.m. on Sept. 18. The Moscow mayor asserted that Russian air defense units intercepted and destroyed 64 drones directly on their final approach to Moscow,

Maj. Robert "Magyar" Brovdi said his forces had "burned" 21 tankers in the last three days, as part of a campaign from early July to choke Crimea.

Vasyl, a portable rocket operator in ⁠one ⁠of Ukraine's many mobile air defence groups, was ⁠dismayed when he checked his screen. The Russian jet-powered Shahed drone moving towards his position was flying far too ​high for him to shoot it down.