Ahmedabad Times

4 min learnUp to date: Might 18, 2026 02:23 PM IST

No less than 4 folks, together with an Indian, have been killed after Ukraine unleashed “one of many largest” ever drone strikes focusing on Moscow on Sunday (Might 17). Russia additionally attacked Ukraine in a single day, focusing on components of the nation with drones and missiles, injuring a complete of 11, together with two boys.

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• Russian strikes focused the cities of Odesa within the south and Dnipro within the southeast in a single day, injuring 11.
• Within the main Black Sea export port of Odesa, the drones hit residential buildings, a college and ​a ​kindergarten. An 11-year-old ‌boy and a 59-year-old man have been injured within the assault, he added.
• Within the southeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro, missile assaults injured 9 folks, together with a 10-year ⁠outdated boy.
• Russian drones additionally struck infrastructure amenities of Naftogaz, Ukraine’s ⁠power ​agency, within the ​Dnipropetrovsk ​area, ⁠the corporate mentioned.
• Ukraine launched an enormous in a single day drone strike that broken residential buildings in Russia’s Krasnogorsk, mentioned the Russian authorities, and a whole lot of drones have been intercepted.
• No less than 4 folks have been killed, together with three within the Moscow area. A fourth individual was killed within the Belgorod area bordering northeastern Ukraine.
• Among the many three lifeless within the Moscow area, one was an Indian citizen. Quickly after the assault, the Indian embassy in Russia mentioned, “Immediately (Might 17) within the Moscow area, on account of a drone assault, one citizen of India was killed, and three others have been injured. Embassy employees travelled to the scene of the incident and visited the victims within the hospital.” Expressing condolences to the household of the deceased, the Embassy mentioned it’s doing the whole lot attainable to offer the required help to the victims, “carefully cooperating with the corporate’s administration and native authorities”.
• The Russian Embassy in India launched a press release saying that it “mourns along with the household of the Indian employee and extends its sympathy to these injured by the Ukrainian assault on civilian amenities within the Moscow area”.
• Ukrainian drones have been downed ⁠in a single day ‌within the southern Russian area of Rostov, ​together with the port metropolis ‌of Taganrog on the Sea of Azov.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyyconfirming the strikes, mentioned that Kyiv’s long-range drone and missile capabilities efficiently struck targets within the Moscow area regardless of dense Russian air defence programs. He additionally mentioned that his nation’s “responses to Russia’s prolongation of the warfare and strikes on our cities and communities are fully justified.” “Our responses to Russia’s prolongation of the warfare and strikes on our cities and communities are fully justified. This time, Ukrainian long-range sanctions have reached the Moscow area, and we’re clearly telling Russians: their state should finish its warfare. Ukrainian drone and missile producers proceed their work. Grateful to the SBU and all of the Ukrainian Protection Forces for his or her precision. Distance from Ukraine’s state border – over 500 km. The focus of Russian air defence within the Moscow area is the very best. However we overcome it. Glory to Ukraine,” he mentioned.
• Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin mentioned drones focused areas close to the town’s oil refinery and injured at the very least 12 folks. He mentioned the “know-how” of the refinery hadn’t been broken.
• Sheremetyevo airport (Russia’s largest airport) mentioned drone particles fell on its premises, however flights continued with out disruption.
• Russia’s defence ministry mentioned Sunday that air defence programs destroyed 556 drones in a single day throughout the nation.

— with inputs from Reuters