Moscow has heavily invested in military tech and ramped up drone production to meet its growing demands, as Ukraine struggles to counter near-nightly attacks

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed its forces downed 155 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 53 over Kursk Oblast and 13 over Tula Oblast.

A Russian drone barrage targeted the center of Kharkiv on Friday, injuring nine people and damaging a maternity hospital.

Truckers in Moscow and the Moscow region have begun to check trucks en masse amid the threat of new drone attacks. According to the Telegram channel "VChK-OGPU," a heightened alert has been introduced in the Russian capital, and all defense equipment and shelters have been put on full alert.

One of Russia’s most powerful men, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, is set to visit North Korea this weekend, in a sign of deepening relations between Moscow and Pyongyang as North Korea gets pulled deeper into Russia’s war in Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, topping previous nightly barrages for the third time in two weeks, part of Moscow’s intensifying aerial and ground assault in the three-year war, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday.