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Ukrainian drones kill two in Moscow region, injure nine more, governor says

By Thomson Reuters Oct 6, 2026 | 2:58 AM

(Corrects to remove erroneous reference to warehouse as a Wildberries warehouse in paragraph 3)

MOSCOW, ​Oct 6 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drone attacks ‌overnight on Tuesday killed two people and injured nine more in the Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital, Governor ‌Andrei ​Vorobyov said.

More than ⁠650 Ukrainian drones ⁠were launched in a wave headed towards Moscow overnight, the city’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said earlier ​on Tuesday, adding that most of them were downed.

The dead ⁠included a 71-year-old ⁠man pulled from under the ​rubble of a house and a ​20-year-old man found in a nearby ‌village, Vorobyov said. A warehouse was also set ablaze, local authorities were cited as saying by ⁠the TASS state news agency.

The head of the city of Domodedovo, south of ⁠Moscow ‌and home to the ⁠country’s third-largest airport of the ​same ‌name, said work was ​being done ⁠to restore electricity to villages that had been hit by drones.

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and ​Gleb Bryanski)