Ukraine Launches Huge Drone Attack on Moscow Region
Ukraine launched more than 600 drones at the Moscow region overnight, according to the city’s mayor, setting a warehouse ablaze and grounding flights in one of its largest strikes yet. It followed Russian missile barrages on Ukrainian ports and comes as fuel shortages spread across Russia. Moscow warned Britain of “consequences” over reports that Ukraine is using UK-made drones; Prime Minister Burnham said the UK backed Ukraine “100 per cent”.
The scale of the assault — hundreds of drones in a single night — marks a new phase in Ukraine’s campaign to take the war to Russian soil and its economy, and the queues now forming at Russian petrol stations show the strategy biting where the front lines have not. Russia’s warning to Britain drags London more openly into the confrontation, testing whether Moscow’s threats carry beyond rhetoric, and Mr Burnham’s unqualified backing leaves no ambiguity about the UK’s stance. Each side is now striking the other’s energy infrastructure as winter approaches, a contest of endurance as much as firepower. Watch whether Russia acts on its threat to Britain and how the fuel crisis develops.