{"id":64202,"date":"2026-08-18T05:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/64202"},"modified":"2026-08-18T05:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:12:31","slug":"several-wounded-as-620-drones-launched-towards-moscow-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/64202","title":{"rendered":"Several wounded as 620 drones launched towards Moscow region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>MOSCOW: A total of 620 drones flew towards the Moscow region overnight, Russian officials said on Tuesday, reporting that several people were wounded and buildings were struck.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With frontline fighting at a near standstill and talks frozen, Ukraine and Russia have significantly stepped-up long-distance attacks, pushing the civilian death toll to its highest levels since the war\u2019s first months in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Russian air defences destroyed more than 180 of the drones over the capital region, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on the state-backed MAX platform.<\/p>\n<p>The drone swarm wounded three people, including a 10-year-old girl, Moscow region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight, and in the morning, air defence and electronic warfare forces were repelling a large-scale drone attack on Moscow region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cmost serious consequences\u201d were reported in the Pavlovsky Posad district, where a house burned down, Vorobyov said.<\/p>\n<p>A drone also struck a warehouse east of Moscow belonging to e-commerce giant Wildberries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company\u2019s logistics complex in Moscow region sustained minor damage as a result of the attack. Debris hit the wall of the building,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has struck multiple Wildberries warehouses in recent weeks, saying the company supplies components for Russian drones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/several-wounded-620-drones-launched-moscow-region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: A total of 620 drones flew towards the Moscow region overnight, Russian officials said on Tuesday, reporting that several people were wounded and buildings were struck. With frontline fighting at a near standstill and talks frozen, Ukraine and Russia have significantly stepped-up long-distance attacks, pushing the civilian death toll to its highest levels since the war\u2019s first months in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ukraine.jpg",750,369,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":2959,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":2959,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64204,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64202\/revisions\/64204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}