A 71-year-old priest died and four other religious people were injured in a Russian drone attack that yesterday hit a monastery in the village of Chervonyi Maiak, in the Kherson region of Ukraine. This was reported by Oleksandr Prokudin, governor of the military administration of the oblast.
Drones shot down during the night
According to Tass agency calculations based on reports from Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, the number of Ukrainian drones shot down as they approached Moscow since midnight on Sunday (21:00 GMT on Saturday) reached 186. “Another 35 drones were shot down. Rescuers are working in the areas where the fragments fell,” he wrote on the Max messaging service.
The mayor of Moscow accused Ukraine of having launched, in the last few hours, an “unprecedented” attack involving over 1,600 drones directed towards Russia, with the aim – according to him – of “disturbing” the legislative elections.
According to Sergei Sobyanin, since yesterday the Russian air defense has shot down more than 1,600 drones, of which “450 were directed towards Moscow”https://gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/mondo/2026/09/20/ucraina-oltreto-un-monastero-morto-un-sacerdote-d i-71-years-four-religious-wounded-drones-shot-down-in-the-night-d60d26c9-4066-40ff-b33e-8fcd060f8d8e/.”This The unprecedented attack was clearly planned to disrupt the elections. The enemy did not succeed,” he said on Telegram, as Russians vote on Sunday in the third and final day of the first legislative elections since Russia’s large-scale offensive against Ukraine began in February 2022.