Residents of southeast Moscow spent June 18 under black clouds of smoke and “oil rains,” looking at the wreckage of drones in their yards. “Berega” report from Lyubertsy and Kapotnya On the night of June 18, residents of a number of districts of Moscow and the Moscow region experienced the largest attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones since the beginning of the war. At least 17 people were injured in the region.

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The plant of the French company Delair, which produces drones and supplies them to Ukraine, was bombarded with Molotov cocktails, Le Parisien newspaper reported , citing sources. We are talking about a plant near the city of Toulouse in southwestern France. Delair itself is considered one of the leading companies in the country for the production of civil and military drones. After the start of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, it became a supplier to Kyiv.

Israel does not intend to withdraw troops from southern Lebanon and will maintain a security zone there as long as necessary, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The Israeli leader spoke at an official ceremony marking Highway 60, the north-south highway from Nazareth to Beersheba through the West Bank. He explained his refusal to withdraw troops from Lebanon by the security of the northern part of the country: We will restore security and prosperity to the northern communities.

Meduza readers from Moscow and the Moscow region talk about the largest attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces EPA/Scanpix/LETA On the night of June 18, Moscow and the Moscow region were subjected to the largest Ukrainian attack since the beginning of the war. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported on the destruction of almost 200 drones. In Kapotnya, an oil refinery caught fire, drones fell on the Sadovod market and the Mega Belaya Dacha shopping center.

The first oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on the night of June 18, said US Vice President J.D. Vance. This happened hours after the US signed a peace agreement with Iran. “About 12.5 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz overnight,” Vance said. According to him, this is the highest figure since the start of the US war with Iran. At the same time, oil prices fell to pre-war levels.

During an attack on the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya on June 18, Ukrainian drones damaged the Euro+ oil refining unit, sources told Reuters. The block includes an AVT-6 primary oil distillation unit with a nominal capacity of 140 thousand barrels per day - this is 47% of the plant’s primary refining capacity. Auxiliary equipment, oil and petroleum product storage tanks, pipelines and secondary installations were also damaged.

Analyzing the results of the conflict Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Tehran. June 18, 2026 On June 18, US and Iranian Presidents Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding. This document implies a cessation of hostilities on all fronts for 60 days and the beginning of negotiations on a complete end to the war. In addition, Washington undertakes to end the blockade of Iran, and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz for shipping.

How Russian propaganda reacts to the largest attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Moscow AFP/Scanpix/LETA TV Russian federal channels practically ignored the Ukrainian Armed Forces drone raid on Moscow. In the morning news broadcasts, neither Channel One, nor Rossiya 1, nor NTV placed this topic in the initial block of announcements.

Rockstar Games has announced that pre-orders for the GTA VI video game will begin on June 25. From this date, the game will be available for purchase on online platforms and in retail chains, the company said in a statement. How much GTA VI will cost is not specified. Rockstar also revealed the official cover art for the game.

During the day, Russian air defense forces shot down a record number of drones - almost a thousand Ukrainian drones, the Agency calculated based on reports from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Thus, according to statements by the military department, the following were shot down over Russian regions and territories annexed by the Russian Federation in one day: 992 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones, four long-range cruise missiles, ten guided bombs.

Russia: this is Ukraine. Ukraine: this is Russia. Belarus: better stay at home Egor Kovalchuk Bus hit in Bryansk region On June 17, a drone attacked a passenger bus in the Bryansk region. There were 44 people on the bus, including 28 children. These were pupils of a sports school from the Belarusian city of Rechitsa, who were sent on vacation to Gelendzhik. The impact killed a woman accompanying the team. Six more people were injured, including four children.

In Moscow and the Moscow region, which on June 18 suffered the largest attack by Ukrainian drones since the beginning of the great war, no warnings were sent out about the unmanned threat. “There are no SMS messages, no sirens. All the information is in local chats, there is much more information there than on TV,” one reader wrote to Meduza. He indicated that he lives in the southeast of Moscow.

What else is known about Petrov? Vyborg district of Leningrad region In Moscow, the owner of the oil port in Ust-Luga, Ilya Traber, was placed under arrest in connection with the murder of Vyborg businessman and deputy Alexander Petrov (it happened back in 2020) and illegal arms trafficking. St. Petersburg resident Traber, known under the nickname Antiquarian, was friends with Vladimir Putin in the 1990s and until 2026 had great influence in the city (you can read more about him here ).

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested two more defendants in the case of the murder of St. Petersburg deputy Alexander Petrov - Vladimir Danilenko and Sait Saladinov, RBC, Interfax and TASS report. The day before, the court arrested Ilya Traber, a businessman considered close to Vladimir Putin, in the same case. He is suspected of involvement in organizing the murder of Petrov in 2020. Vladimir Danilenko, arrested today, is a long-time business partner of Ilya Traber.