In a post on Telegram early on Sunday, Vorobiev wrote that “since three o’clock in the morning, air defence forces have been repelling a large-scale UAV [drone] attack on the capital region”.
He said four people – three men and a woman – were injured in the region, and a number of houses damaged.
A private house was on fire in the village of Subbotino, south-west of Moscow, the governor added.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 12 people were injured when drones hit an entrance to the city’s oil refinery. Three nearby houses were damaged.
Russia’s military said 556 drones were intercepted around the country, about 130 of them in Moscow region.
Meanwhile, Sheremetyevo – Russia’s busiest airport that serves Moscow – reported drone wreckage on its territory. It said no-one was injured.
“The situation in the passenger terminals is calm. Sheremetyevo Airport is providing stable passenger and aircraft services,” airport authorities said.
Later on Sunday, Zelensky said that Ukraine’s “long-range sanctions have reached the Moscow region”, referring to the latest drone attack.
“We are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war,” he wrote in a post on Telegram.
In a statement, Ukraine’s state security service SBU said that – together with Ukraine’s military – it had struck several oil facilities and a semiconductor-making plant in the Moscow region.
It added that a number of air defence systems were hit at the Belbek military airfield in Crimea – Ukraine’s southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
Zelensky had earlier pledged to retaliate for recent Russian attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions.
He said on Saturday that this week Ukraine had already destroyed high-value Russian military equipment, including aircraft, a helicopter and a cargo ship. Russian oil facilities had also been attacked, he added.
In recent months, Ukraine’s military has intensified its strikes on key energy facilities across Russia.
Kyiv says they are legitimate targets as they allow Russia to continue its war effort.
