Russia vows retaliation after deadly drone strikes on Moscow during election vote

Russia vowed Sunday to intensify strikes on Kyiv after Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow killed two people during the final day of parliamentary elections, where an exit poll showed the ruling United Russia party winning 49.4 percent of the vote. The attack, described as the largest on Moscow since 2022, involved some 1,600 drones, with 450 aimed at the capital, setting an oil refinery ablaze and damaging a residential building. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky praised the strikes as hitting billions of dollars sustaining Russia's war machine. The vote, Russia's first since its Ukraine offensive, saw opposition barred and Navalny's widow urging anti-war protests. Officials reported over 1,000 waves of cyberattacks on election infrastructure, with first official results expected Monday.