Drone and missile attack on the refinery in Moscow
Moscow · Russia · 18 June 2026
430 drones reported · refinery, housing · 56 hits · fire
Sources for this report
- Institute for the Study of War: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 18, 2026
- Meduza (EN): ‘This is our payback’: Meduza readers in Moscow respond to Ukraine’s largest drone attack of the war
- Meduza (EN): After Ukraine’s second drone strike in three days on Moscow’s largest oil refinery, Muscovites can expect the same air pollution that has plagued other targeted Russian cities
- Meduza (EN): How pro-Kremlin voices are reacting to the biggest attack on Moscow: propagandists call for jailing those who post drone footage, Z-bloggers praise air defenses, and state TV goes quiet
- Meduza (EN): ‘No SMS at all, no sirens’: Moscow residents say they received no warning alerts before drone attack
- Meduza (EN): How Ukraine’s drone attacks on Moscow have escalated - a timeline
- Meduza (EN): In photos: Moscow hit by the biggest attack since the start of the full-scale war - airports close, an oil refinery burns, and black smoke rises over the city
- Meduza (EN): ‘A fully justified response to Russian attacks on our cities’ - Zelensky on Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow
- Meduza (EN): All Moscow airports shut down amid largest Ukrainian drone attack on the capital since the start of the full-scale war
- Meduza (EN): Ukrainian drones strike Moscow and region, hitting oil refinery in Kapotnya
- The Moscow Times (EN): Ukraine Sets Major Oil Refinery Ablaze in Largest-Ever Drone Attack on Moscow
- BBC News - Europe: Moscow residents complain of black rain after largest Ukrainian attack hits oil refinery
- TASS (EN): IN BRIEF: One killed in Rostov Region as air defenses down 555 UAVs across Russia
- TASS (EN): What is known about largest Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow Region in two years
- TASS (EN): Attempted Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow becomes largest in two years
- TASS (EN): Air defenses shoot down another five drones flying toward Moscow
- The Guardian - Ukraine: What did Ukraine target in Moscow and how significant was the drone attack?
- The Guardian - Ukraine: ‘If Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn,’ Zelenskyy warns after overnight strikes in Russia - as it happened
- The Guardian - Ukraine: Moscow oil refinery struck in Ukraine’s biggest air raid on city since start of war
Earlier reported strikes at Moscow
- 16 June 2026
430 drones reported · refinery · impact reported · fire
- 8 June 2026
attack reported
- 6 June 2026
attack reported
- 3 June 2026
Bus hit by drone strike with fires and damage overnight
- 2 June 2026
Russian oil infrastructure hit overnight with fires
Every figure on this page is a published claim, kept with its source. Figures count what each side says was launched at it; places are locations that reported impacts. Neither is a casualty count.