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blue-wave

(5,585 posts)
Sun May 17, 2026, 07:01 PM May 17

Ukraine launched Huge Drone Attack on Moscow: Moscow Wasn't Ready for This Attack



Ukraine just launched the largest drone attack of the war against Moscow, bringing the war home to the residents of the Russian capital city. And this is just the beginning. This wasn’t a lucky strike, it was the result of months of slowly degrading Russian air defense across the country to where Putin can no longer protect everything, everywhere.

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I agree that this is just the beginning. Ukraine doesn't have to just take it anymore.
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Ukraine launched Huge Drone Attack on Moscow: Moscow Wasn't Ready for This Attack (Original Post) blue-wave May 17 OP
Do the same thing to Moscow Russia did to Kyiv. Irish_Dem May 17 #1
Yup! blue-wave May 17 #2
And they can learn first and Putin has been lying to them all along. Irish_Dem May 17 #3
Big difference Warpy May 17 #4
Even still, at some point civilians start getting nervous. Irish_Dem May 17 #5
Given the state of Russian air defense Warpy May 17 #6
I hope they feel uncomfortable in some way. Irish_Dem May 17 #7
Direct hits on apartment blocks, just like the Russians do WarGamer May 17 #8
"just like the Russians do" orangecrush May 17 #9

Warpy

(114,695 posts)
4. Big difference
Sun May 17, 2026, 08:17 PM
May 17

People in Kyiv had to grab their kids and a few blankets and spend the night in a subway station because Russia targeted residential buildings.

Kyiv is still targeting high value military and infrastructure targets, not civilian buildings. Civian tartes are hit only by Ukrainian drones knocked off target, usually by electronic warfare, or by Russian air defense that has gone off target.

If people in Moscow are finding it hard to sleep, perhaps it's time to make videos telliung Putin to end his futile war. Those should work about as well as Russian air defense does.

Irish_Dem

(82,457 posts)
5. Even still, at some point civilians start getting nervous.
Sun May 17, 2026, 08:25 PM
May 17

And it disrupts their lives.

And maybe they are grateful to Zelensky for sparing them.

Warpy

(114,695 posts)
6. Given the state of Russian air defense
Sun May 17, 2026, 08:57 PM
May 17

I'd be pretty nervous, too, especially if I lived above the sixth floor or so of a high rise apartment building.

Still, the chances of getting hit in Moscow vs. Kyiv are small.

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