Russia has unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage on civilian areas of Ukraine and is stepping up ground attacks along the front.

Kalashnikov Concern said it plans to mass-produce the 30-round cartridges, which are meant to be fired by its AK-12 and split into fragments.

By spring 2026, the evidence had become difficult for even hawkish Russian military bloggers to wave away. Ukraine was fielding first-person-view attack drones at industrial scale, hunting Russian warships with an upgraded naval drone across the full breadth of the Black Sea,

Ukraine launched more cross-border attack drones than Russia in a one-month period for the first time since the start of the ongoing war in 2022, according to daily data published by the Ukrainian Air Force and Russian Ministry of Defense,

Ukraine warns Russia is establishing long-range drone control stations in Belarus, intensifying the war and threatening NATO's eastern flank.

Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone attack on Odesa has killed two women and a toddler. The attack heavily damaged an apartment block, with rescuers pulling four people from the rubble.

A large-scale overnight drone attack hit Russia’s Krasnodar Krai on 9 April, with explosions reported near Krymsk and a fire breaking out at an energy facility.

NATO members Estonia and Latvia say stray drones hit their territory amid one of Moscow's biggest assaults on Ukraine.

Two senior European officials, speaking anonymously given the diplomatic sensitivity of the topic, said their intelligence agencies believed that Russia was preparing to deliver drones to Iran for use in the war with the United States and Israel. They offered no details about prospective shipments or timing.