Russia has once again launched a massive night-time aerial attack on Ukraine, with 140 drones, sources from Kiev said on Thursday morning. The Ukrainian military stated that 85 of these drones were shot down and the location of 52 was lost,

Ukraine has, for some time, fielded large "mothership" drones that can carry and eventually deploy a set of smaller attack drones. This approach can, for example, get light and fast FPV attack drones behind the front lines before releasing them, thereby extending the attack drones' limited range.

Two Russian drones were suspected of flying over Nato country Romania to attack a port in Ukraine. Two of the unmanned aircraft were also reported to have crossed into Moldova as part of the operation, and to have been blown up on its soil.