Moscow has been upgrading its version of the Iranian Shahed drone at pace, deploying newer high-speed jet variants capable of reaching targets almost 620 miles away. Using new variants from the bases identified would put strikes against Poland's capital within Putin's reach.

More than 50 teams from Russia and abroad participated in the contest, cultivating a 2,000-square-meter plot of land in the southern city of Mineralnye Vody.

Ukraine has launched hundreds of drones across Russia, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.

Russia attacked Odesa with a drone on Aug. 16, targeting a postal facility and injuring four people, including a 42-year-old woman and three men aged between 32 and 43, local authorities reported.

Iryna Terekh, 34, used to design benches. She is now the CEO of Ukraine’s largest private defense company.

Six hundred drones targeted the Moscow region in a sustained overnight assault that wounded three people, the Russian capital's mayor said on Sunday, as Ukraine steps up long-range attacks into

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has stated that at least 2,982 individuals from 37 African countries have been recruited into Russia's armed forces. Of them, 486 are known to have been killed.

Russia is using wounded and disabled soldiers in frontline assaults, showing how far Moscow is prepared to go to sustain its attritional war in Ukraine.