Ukraine targets Moscow daily with drones this year

Ukraine has targeted Moscow with drones every day of 2026 so far, in what appeared to mark an escalation from earlier, more sporadic attacks on the Russian capital.



By midnight on Sunday alone, Russian air defence systems had destroyed 57 drones over the Moscow region out of 437 downed over.



The daily activity suggests a shift from past patterns, when Moscow was hit more intermittently, often around symbolic dates or as a form of signalling rather than a near routine pressure campaign.



There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, but Kyiv has increasingly used long range drones to strike targets deep inside Russia.



Ukraine says such attacks aim to disrupt military logistics and energy infrastructure, raise costs for Moscow’s war effort and respond to repeated Russian missile and drone attacks in the war that Russia launched nearly four years ago.



Russia typically reports only how many drones its air defences say they downed, not how many Ukraine launched, and rarely discloses the full extent of ⁠damage unless civilians are killed or civilian sites are hit.