650 drones fly at Moscow as an airport fuel depot burns

According to the state news agency TASS, Sobyanin said 650 drones headed for the Moscow region during those hours. Most were downed on the outer approaches, and 105 as they neared the capital. Euromaidan Press reported that the Moscow Oblast governor put the number shot down across 16 districts at 185. Newsweek reported that Russia's defence ministry claimed 868 drones downed overnight over 11 regions, Crimea and the Sea of Azov. Newsweek also reported two dead and nine injured; Moscow's four airports temporarily restricted flights.

As of 6 October the targeting claim is one-sided and only partly verified. The Kyiv Independent said eyewitness footage showed flames and smoke rising from the Volodarsk facility, 40 km outside Moscow, but noted it could not independently verify the strike. Euromaidan Press said the site is run by Transneft's Upper Volga unit, with roughly 250,000 cubic metres of capacity across 27 tanks. It can handle 3 million tonnes of jet fuel, 2.8 million tonnes of diesel and 1.6 million tonnes of petrol a year. As of 6 October the Ukrainian military had not claimed the attack, and Russian officials had not referred to the fire.

Through a ring pipeline the facility supplies aviation fuel to three airports: Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo. That suggests distribution hubs, not only refineries, have joined the 2026 target list. On 4 October Ukraine's defence ministry claimed that 51% of Russian refining capacity was out of action; the figure could not be verified. Newsweek reported on 6 October that Zelenskiy said Kyiv would intensify refinery strikes in response to Russia's pre-winter attacks on Ukrainian cities.