We are coming to the four and a half year point in the Russian – Ukraine war. Russia has bit off more than it can chew; never in their lifetime did the Putin invasion believe this atrocity would last this long. Ukraine has showed its meddle, heaving bombs, drones and missiles at the proverbial foe. But as the sun comes up in the morning and sets at night, the war (special military operation according to Putin) goes on.
Russia can’t give in because over one hundred thousand Russian lives have been lost. How will he explain this to the people? The longer it persists we calculate that Putin will be taken out, one way or another. The latest barrage fired from Ukraine was no warning shot, It was a wake up call for Mother Russia. Give up or there are more days like this to follow. How much Russian blood will the people take?
Ukraine launches hundreds of drones into Russia in one of the largest aerial attacks of the war
Updated on: August 16, 2026 / 7:45 AM EDT / AP
CBS
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that 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 Gov. 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 southwestern Rostov region, killing five people, local Gov. Yury Slyusar said. The attack, with more than 150 drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest fire.
Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones increasingly targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly pummeled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant and bringing the war home to the Russian public nearly four and half years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of 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 also said that one more person had been killed in the city of Sumy.