Russian authorities said Moscow came under its largest drone attack of the war so far on Saturday night and Sunday morning, as the country entered the final day of its three-day parliamentary elections. More than 1,600 drones reportedly targeted at the capital region in under 24 hours. Two people were killed in the Moscow region and more than 20 were injured, according to officials.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said 450 of the drones were shot down as they approached the city, though preliminary reports indicated no fatalities in the city proper.

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The Ukrainian air force reported that Russian forces had fired two “Zircon” missiles as well as 174 drones at Ukraine overnight.

Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least 11 people and injured dozens more over the past day, according to local authorities.

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A Russian drone struck the Kyiv headquarters of Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, on Friday, in a rare direct hit on a key government building that highlights Ukraine’s dire shortages of air defenses.

The daytime strike - the first time the SBU building has been hit in the four-and-a-half year conflict - came after days of near continuous aerial assaults by Russia on the Ukrainian capital.

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The death toll from a Russian attack on a warehouse west of Kiev, the deadliest attack of the war so far this year, has risen to 38, with four people still missing, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media on Sunday.

Friday night’s attack on the warehouse, which Ukrainian officials said was used to store ammunition, caused powerful explosions and massive fires that spread to dozens of nearby homes and buildings.

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Russia has launched a new wave of attacks on weapons factories in Europe, recruiting members of local criminal gangs and testing NATO’s response.

Source: The Telegraph with reference to Western intelligence sources, as reported by European Pravda

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