Ukraine launches record drone assault on Moscow, striking oil refinery and residential areas

In the long arc of this war, September brought a threshold moment: Ukraine launched more than a thousand drones at Moscow in a single coordinated assault, the largest the Russian capital has ever faced. The strike reached an oil refinery and a residential building, carrying the conflict's weight into the heart of a city that had long watched the war from a remove. What the attack revealed was less about the damage done than about the distance Ukraine's military capacity has traveled — from survival to strategic reach.