Ukraine targets Moscow and Wildberries warehouse in aerial assault

Ukraine has launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war.

Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities.

It has also increasingly pummelled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars' worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant.

Those attacks have brought the war home to the Russian public, more than four years after Moscow ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukraine also came under Russian attack, with drone strikes destroying homes and torching Kyiv's landmark book market.

Russia's Ministry of Defence said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third of those destroyed over the Moscow region itself.

An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local Governor Andrey Vorobyov said.

He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Podolsk.

A drone attack targeted three towns in Russia's south-western Rostov region, killing five people, local Governor Yury Slyusar said.

The attack, with more than 150 drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest fire.

Russian strikes kill five in Ukraine

A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Kryvyi Rih killed two people and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media Sunday.

He said one more person had been killed in the city of Sumy.

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine's largest steel producer, confirmed that one of its sites had been hit in a missile attack and that operations had been partially suspended.

Elsewhere, a man and a woman died when their home was hit by a Russian strike in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, said Ivan Fedorov, the head of the local military administration.

Russian attacks also sparked fires throughout the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, wounding six people.

A blaze took hold at one of the city's largest book markets, tearing through kiosks huddled close to the Pochaina metro station.

Firefighters fought back the flames, which sent plumes of black smoke across the capital, and picked their way through rubble where the market's crowded pavilions once stood.

"Wherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure," Mr Zelenskyy said.

Russia's Ministry of Defence said Sunday it had targeted a metallurgical plant in Kryvyi Rih and several military-industrial sites in Kyiv, including a manufacturing facility for Ukraine's Flamingo missiles.

The domestically produced missiles are increasingly key to Ukraine's long-range attacks on Russia, with Mr Zelenskyy announcing on Saturday that Kyiv had used the weapons to attack a rocket research and production centre in Samara, approximately 900 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.

NATO jet downs drone in Romanian airspace

The major exchanges came on the same day that Romania's Ministry of National Defence said a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace.

The drone's entry into the NATO member's airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4:44am, local time, the ministry said, about 24 kilometres north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighbouring Moldova. 

Moldova is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania.

The Spanish aircraft, which was performing air policing duties, "made radar contact with the target and received engagement approval", the ministry said.

"The drone was safely shot down by the F-18 aircraft at 05:01."

The ministry later said drone debris was also reported in the Black Sea around 10am on Sunday, about 1.5 kilometres from the coastal city of Constanta.