Russia fired nearly 8,000 Molniya and Lancet drones at Ukraine’s front in a week. Nine in 10 were stopped
The peak came on 30 October, when Russia launched more than 1,600 Molniyas in a single day, Ukraine’s General Staff said.
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A Ukrainian ground robot hauls up to 500 kg—and tows broken robots back for repair
Its maker says the robot has been tested in combat and is heading for military approval, as Russian drone units hunt Ukraine's robotic supply runs.
Russian jet drone hits Dnipro railway platform, killing 14 people next to a Zaporizhzhia-bound train
An air alert was on and the railway had ordered an evacuation, but many passengers were still beside the train when the drone struck.
A warehouse by day, homes by night: Russian jet drones keep hitting Kharkiv
Five people were hurt, a 4-year-old among them, and the next day a Russian drone hit the same district again, killing one person and injuring two.
A 4-watt video link passed Ukraine’s state tests, its maker says, and could stretch STING interceptors’ radius from 20 km to 30 km
The 30 km figure is Wild Hornets’ own estimate, first given in August, and assumes good line of sight. Testers checked three drone types.
Ukraine says it hit drone hangars at Crimea’s Hvardiiske. Now an OSINT channel spots 20+ bermed shelters there
Dnipro Osint says the base fires Shahed-type drones from vehicles on its runway, and the airfield kept turning up on Ukraine’s launch lists in October.
Guided bombs on Izium, strikes on Zaporizhzhia: Russian overnight attacks wound six, later strikes kill three
It was the second night running that Russia sent at least 140 drones, and strikes hit 15 locations both times.
Drones keep sinking ships off Romania and Bulgaria—French and US patrol planes are watching
Days after NATO promised more planes and forensic teams, a drone sank a cargo ship near Constanța, killing a Ukrainian sailor.
A modem from a Russian drone led reporters to its Chinese maker—which invoiced 500 for Russia’s drone plant
Posing as a Russian military supplier, journalists got a $2.87 million invoice, three bank accounts, and no pushback on military use.
Drone strike sinks cargo ship near Romania, killing Ukrainian sailor. Romanian President blames Russia
The Khoryv capsized about 13 nautical miles off Romania’s coast, with nine crew members rescued and three still missing. The incident adds to a wave of attacks threatening Black Sea shipping and Ukraine’s export routes.
Russian missiles and drones kill one and injure 24 in Kyiv, splitting its metro line in two
Hours after a Kremlin aide said Russia was ready in principle for new talks, prosecutors say Russia destroyed 13 homes in one Kyiv district.
Romania shot down two drones it believes were Russia’s new Geran-4s. Europe isn’t ready for swarms of them, analyst warns
Analyst Fabian Hoffmann says jet-powered interceptors are one answer, but too few Western suppliers make the small engines they need.
Is a Russian drone near you right now? Ukrainians have developed maps that track drones in near real time
Some drones never appear on it at all, so its makers say an empty screen is no proof of safety.
Built as a cheap Shahed lookalike, Russia’s Gerbera now flies with a 10-kg warhead and an incendiary bag
The bigger Gerbera-2 packs a separate soft tank of incendiary mixture behind its main charge, photos from a Ukrainian Telegram channel show.
Two tankers burn off Romania’s Sulina as Bulgaria says it lacks proof Russia is behind the Black Sea ship attacks
Seven crew members of a San Marino-flagged chemical tanker were still missing hours after it caught fire at anchor off the mouth of the Danube.
Russia’s largest drone attack on Kirovohrad Oblast since the full-scale invasion kills three in Kropyvnytskyi
Drones struck critical infrastructure, transport companies, logistics sites, and homes across the central Ukrainian oblast, with its capital taking most of the damage.
Russia attacked Ukrainian retailer Epicentr’s warehouse 10 times in one day, destroying about 85% of goods, company says
The Khmelnytskyi hub had been effectively Epicentr’s only surviving large warehouse complex, after Russia destroyed its two largest logistics complexes in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast.
Ukraine-NATO AI built to forecast Russia’s front-line drone attacks from past data and weather is ready to plug into the army
Drone types, areas, time windows: the model was tested on real data. A second tool ranks artillery plans and is now in trials.
Russian strike collapses a Kharkiv apartment stairwell and kills three, days after the US waived sanctions on Russia’s diesel
Rescuers dug through the night to reach the people buried in the four-story building, while the White House still wants Kyiv to stop striking Russian refineries.
Short on interceptors, Ukraine goes after the launchers: eight Russian ballistic systems hit, three destroyed since September, a minister says
Ukraine's Defense Minister says the hits made Moscow rework planned barrages, as he presses partners for anti-ballistic missiles in bulk instead of one-off deliveries.