Drone strikes Moscow building just days before Russia's Victory Day parade

Published on 04/05/2026 - 10:52 GMT+2

Ukraine launched a drone onslaught connected Moscow overnight connected Monday striking a residential gathering successful the Russian capital, Russian Telegram channels reported.

Russian officials did not remark overmuch connected the incident, but for the politician of Moscow.

In a station connected a Kremlin-controlled societal media platform, Sergey Sobyanin confirmed the attack, claiming that nary casualties had been sustained. He besides said the aerial defence intercepted the drone “launched astatine Moscow.”

Videos posted connected societal media amusement a drone flying astatine a debased altitude towards Moscow conscionable aft midnight. Residents said they heard large explosions successful the superior soon after.

According to photos circulating connected societal media, harm is disposable connected the precocious floors of a high-rise flat gathering successful the city, reportedly the Mosfilm Tower, a high-end gathering located westbound of the city's centre.

There are besides photos showing drone debris scattered crossed the thoroughfare beneath arsenic exigency crews enactment connected the scene.

The onslaught reportedly took spot astir 7 kilometres westbound of the Kremlin and the city's cardinal Red Square and 3 kilometres from the Russian Defence Ministry building.

Unprecedented information measures

Not lone does the onslaught people 1 of the deepest strikes into cardinal Moscow, but it besides comes conscionable days earlier the Victory Day parade connected 9 May.

Russian officials person importantly tightened the information measures successful Moscow successful the run-up to the parade.

According to Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, preparations for the parade are taking spot “in a mode much akin to a subject lockdown than a celebration,” with connection blackouts crossed Moscow this week.

Russian telegram channels accidental hundreds of aerial defence systems person been transferred to the Russian capital.

On apical of the tightened security, the Kremlin besides projected a Victory Day parade ceasefire. The Moscow connection was communicated lone to the US administration, arsenic Russian officials are inactive refusing immoderate interaction with Kyiv.

Russia antecedently announced a abbreviated ceasefire for Easter earlier successful April. For Russian authorities, Victory Day has the aforesaid symbolic meaning.

More than a triumph fete, 9 May for Russia nether Putin has go 1 of the astir important holidays and a nationalist objection of the Kremlin's subject power.

This year, the amusement volition beryllium importantly scaled back, according to Moscow.

The Victory Day parade would not diagnostic subject vehicles oregon cadets owed to what the Kremlin described arsenic "current operational situation”.