Drone slams into Moscow high-rise 6 km from Kremlin — Sobyanin says no casualties, airports halt operations

Overnight on 4 May, a drone struck a high-rise residential building on Mosfilmovskaya Street in Moscow, around 6 kilometers from the Kremlin, Russian Telegram channels Baza, Astra, Mash, and others reported.

The strike on the Mosfilmovskaya high-rise comes just five days before Russia's 9 May military parade on Red Square, which marks the Soviet victory in World War II.

Astra wrote that "residents of Moscow reported an explosion on Mosfilmovskaya Street," adding that there was "no official information" at the time. The channels published photos of a damaged building and said emergency services were working at the scene.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin later confirmed the strike on Telegram. "According to preliminary data, a drone hit a building in the Mosfilmovskaya area. There are no casualties. Services are working at the scene," he wrote. Per Astra's analysis, the damaged structure is a high-rise in the "Dom na Mosfilmovskoy" residential complex.

By dawn, Sobyanin reported two additional drones that were "flying toward Moscow" had been brought down. Russia's federal aviation agency Rosaviatsia announced restrictions on operations at Moscow's Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports.

This is not the first drone strike on Moscow. Drones have targeted the Russian capital regularly since May 2023, when two UAVs were downed over the Kremlin itself, and attacks have escalated — in March 2025, Russia claimed to have shot down 91 drones over Moscow in a single night. A barrage between 14 and 16 March 2026 saw Mayor Sergei Sobyanin report 199 UAVs neutralized in or near the city.

Russia's overnight tally — and the Samara gap

Russia's defense ministry claimed 117 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the country during the night across Astrakhan, Belgorod, Voronezh, Volgograd, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, and Ulyanovsk oblasts and the Moscow region.

Samara Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev separately said an attack had been repelled over his region, and Astra reported a drone flying over the city of Samara. Samara Oblast, however, does not appear in the defense ministry's overnight summary.

Occupied Luhansk

A series of explosions and a fire were reported in the area of Alchevsk in occupied Luhansk Oblast, according to channel posts cited in the source material. No further official details were provided.