Ukraine Carried Out The Largest Attack On Moscow And The Moscow Suburbs In The Entire War
- 17.05.2026, 12:08
Energy facilities, an OPK enterprise and Sheremetyevo airport have been hit, with residents in panic.
On the night of May 17, Ukrainian drones carried out the largest strike on Moscow and the region in the entire war. According to ASTRA's OSINT analysis, the targets were the Elma Technopark in Zelenograd (an electronic and optical industry enterprise), Solnechnogorskaya loading station in the village of Durykino (a large oil product storage and transshipment facility), and Sheremetyevo airport - the photo shows a fire in the area of the third runway. Exilenova+ also writes about fire at the station and in the technopark. In addition, according to Supernova+, the strike hit the Raduga ICB in Dubna - a developer of cruise missiles. According to the capital's mayor Sergey Sobyanin, the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya was also attacked.
In Sheremetyevo, more than 200 flights were canceled or delayed, according to the online scoreboard. "Aeroflot" reported the redirection of some arriving flights to alternate airfields. In Vnukovo also postponed or canceled almost 100 flights. The press service of Sheremetyevo airport said that the UAV debris fell at a safe distance from passenger areas, there were no casualties.
In Moscow, according to ASTRA, hits were recorded in residential buildings, including on Mikhailova Street, and in Zelenograd a part of a multi-story building was destroyed. Eyewitnesses published videos of damaged facades and destroyed balconies. Residents of Khimki, Lobnya and Naro-Fominsk reported numerous explosions on social networks.
"I didn't think the war would touch our city of Zelenograd," says a woman in a video taken after the attack. In another footage, an eyewitness, showing the destroyed balcony of a high-rise apartment building in Zelenograd, exclaims: "Look how in...lo! The balcony is gone!".
Also, residents of the Moscow region complain in social networks about the lack of a warning system during the impact. In the chat rooms of Khimki, Mytishchi, Zelenograd and Lobnya one after another began to appear messages from citizens wondering why the sirens did not go off and SMS-alerts about the approach of drones, Astra noted. Many also complained that during the night attack it was impossible to call emergency services on the number 112 - the line was constantly busy.
The governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov said that air defense forces began to repel the attack from 3 am. He said at least three people were killed and 17 injured in the region. Damage was caused to residential buildings in Khimki, Krasnogorsk, Dedovsk and other settlements, as well as private homes in Naro-Fominsk district and Sergiev Posad, where four houses and three cars were destroyed, according to the head of the district, Oksana Erokhanova.
"The Moscow region has been hit by the largest-scale attack since the war began. But there will be even bigger ones next. And on Moscow itself, too," commented on the strike, adviser to Ukraine's Defense Minister Sergey Sternenko.
Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Force Robert Brovdi (Madyar) in his posted photos of the drones allegedly involved in the strike. One of them reads "Moscow never sleeps". "The odds have been leveled: the one-way ticket to a quiet life in and around Patricks has been canceled," Brovdi noted.