{"id":484,"date":"2026-10-06T20:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:06:15","slug":"ukraine-650-drones-moscow-region-volodarskaya-fuel-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"UKRAINE THROWS 650 DRONES AT MOSCOW! | Moscow\u2019s mayor counts more than 650 drones in one night \u2014 two dead, 47 homes damaged, and Russian bloggers say the region\u2019s biggest fuel depot took a hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war just came roaring back to Moscow\u2019s doorstep. Ukraine launched <strong>more than 650 drones<\/strong> toward the Russian capital overnight into Tuesday, Moscow Mayor <strong>Sergei Sobyanin<\/strong> said \u2014 adding that most were shot down \u2014 in what <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/ukrainian-drones-kill-two-hit-fuel-hub-in-one-of-biggest-attacks-on-moscow-region-russian-war-bloggers-say\/3063324\/\">Reuters<\/a> calls one of the biggest attacks of the war on Moscow and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n<p>The toll on the ground: Moscow region Governor <strong>Andrei Vorobyov<\/strong> said <strong>two people were killed<\/strong> \u2014 a 71-year-old man pulled from the rubble of a house and a 20-year-old man in a nearby village \u2014 and <strong>nine were injured<\/strong>. He said <strong>185 drones<\/strong> were destroyed or brought down over his region, with 47 houses, four apartments and three cars damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The big question is fuel. Prominent Russian war blogger Yuri Podolyaka said an oil storage tank was hit at the <strong>Volodarskaya<\/strong> oil storage and distribution facility \u2014 the biggest in the Moscow region, which stores diesel, gasoline and jet fuel and supplies all three of the capital\u2019s large airports, per Reuters. There was <strong>no official confirmation<\/strong> it was hit, and Reuters could not immediately verify video purporting to show a huge blaze. <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/news\/2026\/10\/06\/massive-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-moscow-and-surrounding-region-kills-two-sets-region-s-largest-oil-depot-ablaze\">Meduza<\/a> reports local authorities had not reported a fire.<\/p>\n<p>South of the city, the head of Domodedovo \u2014 home to Russia\u2019s third-largest airport \u2014 said crews were working to restore electricity to villages hit by drones. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/6\/ukraine-launches-major-drone-attack-on-russias-moscow-region-killing-two\">Al Jazeera<\/a>\u2019s Moscow correspondent said the barrage ended a relative lull in large Ukrainian strikes on Moscow since Sept. 20, as both sides pound each other\u2019s infrastructure ahead of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: Kyiv keeps aiming at the oil money that pays for Russia\u2019s war \u2014 and the diesel squeeze is everybody\u2019s problem now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/ukrainian-drones-kill-two-hit-fuel-hub-in-one-of-biggest-attacks-on-moscow-region-russian-war-bloggers-say\/3063324\/\">Reuters (via ThePrint)<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/6\/ukraine-launches-major-drone-attack-on-russias-moscow-region-killing-two\">Al Jazeera (AFP\/Reuters)<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/en\/news\/2026\/10\/06\/massive-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-moscow-and-surrounding-region-kills-two-sets-region-s-largest-oil-depot-ablaze\">Meduza<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow\u2019s mayor counts more than 650 drones in one night \u2014 two dead, 47 homes damaged, and Russian bloggers say the region\u2019s biggest fuel depot took a hit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-moscow-drone-swarm-1006.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}