Ukraine’s Drones Now Strike 1,000 Miles Inside Russia

Ukrainian drones are regularly hitting targets deep inside Russia, reaching to the Ural Mountains and communities where most people had seen the war as a distant problem.

A residential high-rise in Yekaterinburg, home to more than 1.5 million people, was struck on April 25, the first damage that city has suffered since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Since early April, authorities have temporarily suspended operations at the local airport on five separate days to respond to drone threats.