New Delhi, July 16 -- MOSCOW - A 6-month-old child died in the Moscow suburb of Yegoryevsk on Thursday when a Ukrainian drone struck a residential home, as Ukraine launched one of its largest drone barrages of the year against the Russian capital and surrounding regions, hitting a satellite communications facility used to coordinate Russian military operations in Ukraine.

Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses destroyed 419 Ukrainian drones across 18 regions overnight, including 61 intercepted as they approached Moscow. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported no significant structural damage to the city itself, but the scale of the attack - the largest Moscow-area barrage in months - shut down operations at Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airpo...