Once a cheap answer to Russia’s artillery dominance, Ukrainian small and inexpensive first-person view (FPV) drones are now a force in their own right. They are used on a huge scale, with Ukraine projected to produce 2m this year.

Russia has attacked Ukraine with an unprecedented number of drones, the Ukrainian air defence announced on Tuesday. It posted on its Telegram channel that Moscow had attacked the country with 188 drones and four Iskander-M ballistic missiles during the night.

KYIV (Reuters) -Russian drone attacks on Ukraine injured at least eight people and damaged residential buildings in the capital Kyiv and in the southern Odesa region overnight, officials said on Friday.

Navigation systems in drones can be jammed or "spoofed," when a device is given false location data, making its systems confuse its true whereabouts.

Russia launched more than a hundred drones at Ukraine overnight and early Friday, killing one person and wounding eight others, officials said.

Akhtarsk, Russia. Read also: Ukraine captures dozens of Russian marines in Kursk Oblast — video Air defense systems were active in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipro, and Kherson oblasts. One UAV was downed,

Russia launched 10 drones into Ukraine on the night of November 30. Air defense forces destroyed almost all targets, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian troops launched 10 Shaheds and unidentified drones into Ukraine from two areas - Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia.

On the night from Thursday to Friday, Russia attacked Ukraine using at least 130 drones. The air defence forces destroyed nearly 90 of them. "About 40 drones lost communication as a result of electronic warfare measures,