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Or sign-in if you have an account.This handout photograph posted on the official Telegram channel of Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov on May 17, 2026 shows a burning building following an air attack at an undisclosed location in the Moscow region, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Photo by Handout /TELEGRAM / @vorobiev_live/AFPA huge wave of almost 600 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia overnight, killing three people in the Moscow region and one in the Belgorod region, authorities said on Sunday.Enjoy the latest local, national and international news.Exclusive articles by Conrad Black, Barbara Kay and others. 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If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox.We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again“A woman was killed as a result of a UAV hitting a private house. One more person is trapped under rubble,” the Moscow region’s Governor Andrey Vorobyov posted on Telegram, adding that the early morning attack also claimed the lives of two men.“Since 3 o’clock in the morning, air defence forces have been repelling a large-scale UAV attack on the capital region,” he said, adding four people were wounded and infrastructure facilities had been targeted.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had vowed on Friday to launch more retaliatory strikes, a day after a Russian attack on Kyiv killed 24 people and injured around 50 more.Within Russia’s capital, local authorities reported that air defence systems had intercepted more than 80 drones overnight, wounding 12 people. This photo released by Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev’s official telegram channel shows the damage after a Ukrainian drone attack, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, May 17, 2026. Photo by Andrei Vorobyev /Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vo“Minor damage has been recorded at the sites where debris fell,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram.One of the strikes wounded construction workers at a job site near an oil and gas refinery, Sobyanin said.“Refinery production has not been disrupted. Three residential buildings were damaged,” he added.While the capital region is often subjected to drone attacks, the city of Moscow, around 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the Ukrainian border, is less frequently targeted.In the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, one man was killed overnight in the Shebekino district in a drone attack on a lorry, regional authorities said.The Ukrainian air force said, meanwhile, it had intercepted 279 Russian drones out of a total of 287 launched. This photograph, taken in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on May 16, 2026, shows a Bober or ‘Beaver’ drone, engaged in deep strikes inside Russian territory, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY /AFP via Getty Images‘Entirely justified’Diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have been at a standstill, with Kyiv unwilling to accept Moscow’s maximalist demands for territory in the eastern Donbas region.While the United States has pushed for both sides to come to the negotiating table, the talks have noticeably stalled since Washington’s attention turned to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in late February.After the expiration of a three-day truce on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II — which both sides accused the other of violating — Moscow and Kyiv have returned to trading attacks.In response to daily bombardments by the Russian military for more than four years, Ukraine has regularly struck within Russia.In the wake of Moscow’s latest attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Zelensky insisted that Kyiv’s strategy of targeting military and energy sites within Russia, so as to strike at Moscow’s ability to finance the war effort, was “entirely justified”.Kyiv’s allies have accused Russia of mocking diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. 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