Moscow woke up under smoke this morning. A mass attack by Ukrainian drones struck the Russian capital, and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin claims air defenses shot down 33 drones. Explosions, black smoke over the city and three closed airports - the picture Moscow has spent years trying to keep away from its own citizens.

The target wasn't random. A Moscow oil refinery was hit for the second time in three days, with a large fire in the industrial complex. A shopping center in the southeast also suffered minor damage. Sobyanin described the damage as "minor" - but social media showed fires at several locations, the standard gap between the official version and the phone footage.

According to the authorities, there were no deaths or injuries in Moscow itself. But in the Rostov region, near the Ukrainian border, a separate attack on an oil depot took one life and injured two more. The war, in other words, is no longer something that happens only on the front - it has reached the reservoirs that feed Russia's war machine.

And here's the point the Balkans understand well. When the war knocks on the door of your own capital, the rhetoric about a "special operation somewhere far away" becomes hard to sustain. Three closed airports, a refinery hit a second time, fires over the city - that's not an incident, it's a trend. The question the Kremlin doesn't want to hear is simple: how long can you tell people everything is under control while the sky above them is burning?