Ukraine has carried out large-scale drone strikes against four airbases deep inside Russia, destroying multiple combat planes, according to a source in the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU).

Russia once struggled to field its own long range drones until Iran sold them the technology to build their own. Now hundreds hit Ukraine every night.

The rapidly evolving drone technology on display in Ukraine shows the Western way of slow procurement isn't enough, the UK armed forces minister said.

China has halted the sale of drones to Ukraine and other European countries while continuing to supply Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky highlights that Chinese drones are accessible to Russians but not to Ukrainians,

The textbook "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: 8th and 9th Grades" has been published and will be used in schools across Russia.

A ssembling Iranian drones in a Russian factory is an unusual option for a work-study programme. Few students or migrant workers, however desperate or foolhardy, would willingly sign up to become a military target. Yet that is the situation in which hundreds of young African women, some of them younger than 18, have unwittingly found themselves.

Russian drones focused on attacking frontline areas rather than their usual targets deep within Ukraine. Of the 90 drones launched, 56 were neutralized by Ukrainian air defense. Key information Russian drones attacked the frontline areas of Ukraine.

Hundreds of Ukrainian drones crossed into Russia overnight into Wednesday morning, dozens of which targeted Moscow.