Ukraine, Russia trade massive drone and missile strikes
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- Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday — one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war — killing at least six people and igniting a fire at a Wildberries warehouse in Podolsk.
- Russia's Ministry of Defense said it destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight; Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said roughly 600 drones were detected headed toward the capital, and five people died in Rostov from a 150-drone attack that damaged a railway station and sparked a forest fire.
- ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine's largest steel producer, confirmed a Russian missile hit one of its sites and partially suspended operations.
- Russian strikes on Kyiv wounded six people and destroyed a landmark book market near the Pochaina metro station.
- A Spanish F-18 on NATO air-policing duty shot down a drone in Romanian airspace near Galati — Romania's fourth such incident in recent weeks and Spain's fourth deployment to bolster the alliance's Eastern Flank.
- Zelensky announced Saturday that Ukraine used domestically produced Flamingo missiles to strike a rocket research and production center in Samara, roughly 900 km from the Ukrainian border.
Why it matters: Ukraine's 822-drone overnight barrage marks an escalation in Kyiv's long-range campaign aimed at Russian military, energy, and consumer-commerce targets like Wildberries depots. Russia retaliated by hitting civilian-adjacent sites including ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih and a Kyiv book market, while a Spanish F-18 downing a drone in Romanian airspace shows the aerial war spilling into NATO territory.
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