Overview
- Ukraine said Sunday’s long‑range drone raid reached the Moscow region, striking the Angstrem electronics plant and the Solnechnogorsk fuel‑pumping station with domestically built UAVs such as RS‑1 Bars, FP‑1 Firepoint and BARS‑SM Gladiator.
- Russia answered overnight on 17–18 May with a combined attack of 546 aerial weapons, and Ukraine’s Air Force reported downing or jamming 507 of them as strikes were recorded across Dnipro, Odesa, Chernihiv and Zaporizhzhia.
- Regional authorities reported at least two people killed and 49 injured across Ukraine over the past day, with hits that damaged homes, schools, a university, clinics, an enterprise and a gas station in cities including Dnipro and Odesa.
- Russian officials said three people died in the Moscow region and reported damage to residential and industrial sites, while Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said more than 120 drones were engaged over the capital region.
- The exchange continued into Tuesday with reported drones over Yaroslavl and near Moscow, underscoring a trend toward nightly mass‑drone strikes that disrupt airports, threaten refineries and pumping stations, and unsettle daily life on both sides.