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Russia launched an intense series of night-time air attacks with drones and missiles, Ukrainian officials said.

The drone attack prompted authorities to temporarily restrict flights at Vnukovo airport and divert flights to two other Moscow main airports.

Officials in Ukraine announced that an inspection had found nearly a quarter of the country’s air-raid shelters locked or unusable.

Russia accuses Ukraine and the West of terrorism and genocide while it beats Kyiv with cruise missiles and drones nightly.

Russia has responded with anger to what it calls terror attacks, as it comes to experience some of what it inflicts on Ukraine.

Russian capital hit by a wave of drones Tuesday, prompting the Kremlin to complain — apparently without irony — of a “terrorist attack”.

Kyiv was subjected to the largest drone attack since the start of Russia’s war, local officials said, with at least one person was killed.

Ukraine has again endured a night of heavy bombardment, with what was reportedly over 30 missiles and drones targeting cities.

Six Ukrainians who posted night-time footage of an air raid could face up to eight years in prison because of martial law censorship.

Ukraine shows off what they claim is a captured Russian drone but its unsophisticated design says something about the state of the war.

Ukraine air defenses shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over Kyiv during Russia’s assault, as attacks across Ukraine killed three civilians.

“Severe and inevitable punishment” is coming to Ukraine for a blast at the Kremlin, top allies of Vladimir Putin said.

Russia announced on Wednesday that security would be increased across Moscow, and Victory Day celebrations scaled back, due to the possibility of attacks by alleged Ukrainian saboteurs.

Russia says it prevented a drone strike on Kremlin, as dramatic video footage shows what they claimed to be a “terrorist attack”. 

Russia and Ukraine struck each other’s energy infrastructure in a series of drone attacks overnight into Wednesday.

A massive fire erupted at an oil reservoir in Crimea after it was hit by a drone, a Russia-appointed official there reported Saturday.

Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine early Friday, killing at least 12 people.

Ukrainian special forces used a military drone packed with explosives to try and kill Russian President Vladimir Putin, a newspaper claims.

Russian media identified the drone that fell near Moscow as a Ukrainian-made UJ-22 and alleged it carried 37 pounds of explosives.

The Pentagon said on Thursday that six U.S. troops in Syria suffered traumatic brain injuries after an attack on their positions last week by Iran-backed militias.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s capital restored most of its power supply on Friday, officials said, as the country again responded swiftly and defiantly to the latest Russian missile and drone barrage targeting critical infrastructure.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia unleashed “a massive rocket attack” that hit critical infrastructure and residential buildings in 10 regions of Ukraine, the country’s president said Thursday, with officials reporting at least six deaths in the largest such nighttime attack in three weeks.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine believes is likely that Russia is employing “Kurdish mercenaries” to fly kamikaze drones against Ukrainian targets.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s forthcoming book recounts inside details on how then-President Donald Trump’s team came to the decision in the lead-up to New Year’s 2020 to kill Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

“We have information that Russia is planning a prolonged attack by Shaheds” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address late Monday.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia deployed multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down, Ukrainian officials said Monday, in a series of relentless attacks through the weekend that killed three civilians on New Year’s Eve.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – The Russian military reported on Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an airbase deep inside Russia, the second time the airbase has been targeted this month, raising questions about the effectiveness of Russia´s air defenses if drones can fly that far into the country.

The UK announced new sanctions against Russian military commanders, as well as Iranians involved in producing and supplying drones.

The Russian Federation is attempting to source more drones and “hundreds” of missiles from the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to sustain its campaign of strategic strikes against Ukraine, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) believes. 

The armed forces of India published videos this week showing the nation’s soldiers ordering birds of prey known as “kites” to seize and destroy small drones mid-air.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey’s airstrikes against Kurdish militia in Syria would soon be augmented by a major ground invasion. Meanwhile, Iran is launching missiles against Kurds living in the mountains of Iraq and using ground forces to crush protests in Iranian Kurdistan.

Britain’s Royal Navy helped to execute the “terrorist attack” which damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to the European Union, the Russian defence ministry has alleged.

Residents of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv (Kiev) woke up to a swarm of so-called ‘kamikaze’ drones raining down on the city on Monday morning.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are allegedly on the ground in Ukraine training Russian forces in the use of “kamikaze” drones.

A Syrian Kurdish security official said on Monday that a drone strike launched by the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition killed an ISIS militant while he was riding a motorcycle through the village of Hamam al-Turkman, which is currently controlled by Syrian militia forces aligned with Turkey.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia attacked the Ukrainian president’s hometown with suicide drones on Sunday, and Ukraine pushed ahead with its counteroffensive after taking back control of a strategic eastern city.