Regional governor Rustam Minnikhanov said the drone was destroyed, but falling debris ignited a fire and struck a vehicle manufacturing plant in the Yelabuga district, some 1,200km from the frontline. Russia’s defence ministry said it shot down six Ukrainian drones overnight.

Russian forces attacked Zaporizhzhia with drones. As a result of the strike, a fire broke out at a local enterprise, according to the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Ivan Fedorov.

A 21-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition after a Russian drone hit the densely populated Rusanivski Gardens neighborhood in the Dniprovskyi district. “This is a deliberate (Russian) terror tactic to target our homes and our people,

Russia launched 315 drones at Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was “one of the largest” attacks on the capital Kyiv, with local officials in the southern port city of Odesa also reporting a maternity ward there had been hit.

The Israeli precision strikes on Iran, especially attacks that decapitated key Iranian military strike corps early into the current military engagement, has similarities to Ukraine’s drone strike against the Russian air bases earlier this month.

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Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on the Poltava region overnight on June 15. Most of the targets were shot down by air defense, according to the head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration,

Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) destroyed three Russian air defense systems using drones in the occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast on June 14, HUR says. "Strike drone masters of the Department of Active Operations of the HUR of the Ukrainian defense ministry discovered and destroyed expensive air defense systems of the Russian invaders in the