Putin Faces Increased Pressure as Moscow Is Again Attacked by Drones
The Russian authorities said 419 drones were shot down across Russia, including in the capital, and in Crimea. A photograph posted on the Moscow region’s official social media channel on Tuesday, said to show a damaged private house in the town of Yegoryevsk. Credit... Andrei Vorobyov, via Telegram, via Reuters By Paul Sonne, Ivan Nechepurenko and John Yoon The New York Times June 30, 2026 Updated 12:06 p.m. ET President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia faced a fresh round of pressure on Tuesday as Ukraine launched another attack on the Russian capital, continued to disrupt Russian fuel supplies and pressed its campaign to cut off Crimea, the peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, reported several waves of drones, starting Monday night, less than two weeks after Ukraine launched the biggest drone assault on the Russian capital since the start of the war. The mayor said on Telegram that Russian air defenses had shot down more than 60 drones on ap...