Russia intensified its air assault against Ukraine Friday night, days after the United States froze an air defense shipment due to waning weapons stockpile. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia launched 550 drones and missiles overnight,

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Russia bombarded Ukraine with airstrikes overnight, killing at least two people, local authorities said on Monday. A strike on the Black Sea port city of Odessa killed one man and damaged civilian infrastructure,

Russia is deliberately directing drones at Ukrainian rescue workers, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES). Russian military Telegram channels have published a video showing a drone strike on an SES vehicle in Kherson.

More than three years into the war, Ukraine has increasingly been using drones to attack targets deep inside Russia.

The assault began around 8:30 p.m. on July 5 and continued into the early hours of July 6. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 117 drones, most of them Shaheds, the military said. Ninety-eight were destroyed by kinetic weapons,

Russia launched a large-scale aerial attack on Ukraine, deploying 157 drones and four S-300 surface-to-air missiles from the Kursk region, reports the Ukrainian Air Force. Russia fired drones, both strike UAVs and decoy drones,