{"id":976,"date":"2026-05-18T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:45:15","slug":"in-brief-drone-attack-on-moscow-surrounding-region-kills-three-people-leaves-18-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"IN BRIEF: Drone attack on Moscow, surrounding region kills three people, leaves 18 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">The Russian Defense Ministry\u2019s air defenses repelled a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region last night.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">According to preliminary reports, three people were killed and another six suffered injuries in the Moscow Region; over 12 people were reported injured in Moscow.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">Moscow<\/span><span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Air defenses shot down over 120 drones heading for Moscow in the past 24 hours, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said. After midnight 81 drones were destroyed.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Twelve people were injured in drone attacks.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; In particular, construction workers suffered injuries at the entrance to the Moscow Refinery.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; The facility\u2019s operation was not affected.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Three residential buildings were damaged.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Response teams are working at the site.<\/span><span class=\"p\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Two men were killed in the village of Pogorelki in Mytishchi, where drone debris hit a house under construction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/2131947\">TASS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Defense Ministry\u2019s air defenses repelled a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region last night. According to preliminary reports, three people were killed and another six suffered injuries in the Moscow Region; over 12 people were reported injured in Moscow. Moscow&#8211; Air defenses shot down over 120 drones heading for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-in-russia","tag-in-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irasieh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}