1 Person Killed in Ukrainian Drone Strike Near Moscow, Russia Says

An overnight drone attack near Moscow killed at least one person and injured three others, a Russian official said early Tuesday, as Ukraine’s counterattacks continue to grow.

A 46-year-old woman was killed in the attack, which damaged apartment buildings in Ramenskoye, a town in the Moscow region, Andrey Vorobyov, the regional governor, said on the messaging app Telegram. Three people were hospitalized and more than 40 residents were evacuated from the burning buildings to temporary shelters, he said.

Drone strikes on Moscow, over 270 miles from the Ukrainian border, are relatively rare. But Ukraine has expanded its attacks on Russia over the past year, targeting places increasingly deeper inside Russian territory even as the strikes have stoked tensions between Kyiv and Washington.

Ukraine has created and ramped up production of domestically produced weapons to conduct such long-range attacks. Ukrainian authorities generally confirm some but not all attacks within Russia’s borders.

The attacks early Tuesday appeared part of a broader strike targeting other parts of the Moscow region. The Russian air defense system shot down 20 drones in the region, Russia’s defense ministry said on Telegram.

A drone fell in the area of Zhukovsky International Airport, Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said on Telegram. That airport and two other airports in the region, Vnukovo and Domodedovo, had their operations restricted early Tuesday, Artem Korenyako, a representative of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, said on Telegram.