Russian drone strikes Archives

Fiber-optic cable unspooled from a Russian FPV drone.

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Russia hits Kramatorsk with fiber-optic drone immune to Ukrainian jamming

The strike marks the first reported use of a fiber-optic-guided drone in Kramatorsk, underscoring Russia’s expanding use of advanced FPV systems designed to evade Ukrainian electronic warfare.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Car destroyed in Russian drone strike in Kupiansk district, Kharkiv Oblast, 5 October, 2025.

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Russian drones hunt civilian cars in Kharkiv Oblast, kill two

Separate strikes within two hours target vehicles on roads in heavily contested Kupiansk district.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Blaze at Ukrainian gas facility following Russian strike, 3 October, 2025

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia launches largest strike on Ukraine’s gas infrastructure since start of war – Naftogaz

Missiles and drones struck energy facilities in eastern Ukraine overnight, causing critical damage to gas production sites.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Damaged residential building after a drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on 30 September, 2025.

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Russian drone strike on Dnipro kills one, injures dozens

A Russian drone strike on Dnipro killed and injured civilians, including children, damaging residential and cultural buildings in the central Ukrainian city.

byBenjamin Murdoch

A Ukrainian ambulance that was struck by a Russian drone in Kherson Oblast on 13 August.

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“Intention to kill”: UN confirms Russia’s systematic drone attacks on civilians amount to crimes against humanity

A UN inquiry has documented systematic Russian drone attacks over 300 kilometers of front-line territory, striking civilians, homes, and first responders.

byBenjamin Murdoch

frontline report sumy sector ukraine isolates oleksiivka single road drone strikes out—and russians can’t get out alive reporting ukraine's video fire control kyiv’s encirclement strategy strangling russian forces one pocket

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Frontline report: In Sumy sector, Ukraine isolates Oleksiivka with a single road in, drone strikes out—and the Russians can’t get out alive

Kyiv’s encirclement strategy is strangling Russian forces one pocket at a time in the Sumy direction.

byReporting from Ukraine

Russian evening strike on Chuhuiv in Kharkiv Oblast sparked two major fires—one at a unspecified city facility that rescue teams battled for hours, and another at the local post office that spread to nearby homes and vehicles.

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Ukraine on fire with civilians injured as Trump doubts Putin wants to end war

Russia launched 322 drones at Ukraine on the night of 5 July, sparking fires at different locations and injuring at least 16 civilians, including children.

byVira Kravchuk

russian drone blows up civilian shuttle bus leaving nine dead sumy border town mini-bus bilopillia-sumy struck morning 17 2025 killing 9 passengers 498016779_1056136843323012_6351334390770892022_n civilians were killed seven injured early hours

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Russian drone blows up civilian shuttle bus, leaving nine dead in Sumy border town

Bilopillia’s mayor called the strike a targeted war crime, noting that the shuttle carried fleeing civilians, mostly women over 60.

byYuri Zoria

A downed Russian Parody drone captured in Moldova. Credit: GUR on Facebook

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Ukraine traces Western tech in Russian “Parody” drones downed in Moldova

Ukrainian intelligence found American, Swiss, Taiwanese, and Chinese components in two Russian decoy drones that landed on Moldovan territory during this weekend's massive aerial assault on Ukraine.

byBrendan Kelley

Aftermath of the Russian drone attack on Kyiv on 2 November.

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Russian drone strikes across six districts in Kyiv ignite fire in high-rises, damage civilian homes

A police officer suffered smoke inhalation while helping residents escape a burning 16-story building in Kyiv's Sviatoshynsky district.

byVira Kravchuk