Ukraine launched a major drone assault on Moscow, firing over 400 drones towards the Russian capital, while Russia struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles in an ongoing cycle of retaliatory attacks. The exchange comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces a domestic political crisis, with days of street protests following his decision to remove Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister while retaining military chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi, exposing tensions between the armed forces' old guard and younger reformers.

Moscow's mayor said most of the 400-plus drones were shot down away from the capital, with 85 intercepted nearby, while regional officials reported 10 people wounded and damage to residential buildings and infrastructure. Fires broke out at an industrial park and reportedly an oil depot south of Moscow, and Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces also hit logistics and oil facilities over 250 miles inside Russia, plus several vessels linked to Russia's "shadow fleet" in the Black Sea; none of these claims could be independently verified. The strikes underline Ukraine's growing long-range drone capability against Russian oil infrastructure, even as Kyiv continues to seek advanced interceptors to counter Russia's increasingly frequent ballistic missile attacks.