A car park in the town of Domodedovo, outside Moscow, after a drone strike on 11 March 2025. Photo: Vorobyov LIVE / Telegram
At least three people were killed and 17 more were injured on Tuesday morning in what Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin called the “largest scale” Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian capital since the start of the war.
According to Russia’s Defence Ministry, Ukraine launched 337 drones at 10 different Russian regions overnight, making the attack the largest unleashed by Ukraine on its neighbour since the start of the war.
Three people were killed and at least 17 more were injured in the attacks on the Moscow region towns of Vidnoye, Domodedovo and Ramenskoye, Moscow region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said, adding that a security guard was killed in one drone strike on the town of Domodedovo, while another man subsequently died of his injuries in hospital in the nearby town of Vidnoye.
Flights were temporarily halted at all four of Moscow’s airports due to the threat posed by drones, as well as at airports in the cities of Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency said. Russia’s Investigative Committee announced that it had opened a criminal case into the attack, which it described as an “act of terrorism”.
A total of 91 drones were intercepted over the Moscow region, the Defence Ministry said, with a further 126 downed over the western Kursk region, 38 over the Bryansk region, 25 over the Belgorod region, 22 over the Ryazan region, 10 over the Kaluga region, eight each over the Kaluga and Oryol regions, six over the Voronezh region and three over the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Ukraine’s Air Force, meanwhile, said that Russia had launched one missile and 126 drones at 11 Ukrainian regions overnight, adding that air defences had downed the missile and 79 of the drones, with a further 35 failing to reach their target.
The unprecedented scale of the strikes on Moscow came just hours after Ukrainian officials arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks with the US on ending the war, with the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak reaffirming his delegation aimed to “protect Ukrainian interests, have a clear vision of ending the war and work effectively with our American partners”.
On Monday, reports emerged that Kyiv was set to propose a partial ceasefire with Russia that would prohibit drone and missile strikes by both sides. In response, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who will attend the talks in Jeddah, said the proposal was the “kind of concession you would need to see in order to end this conflict”.
