Both sides in the more than three-year war following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of its neighbor have raced to improve drone technology and enhance their use on the battlefield.

The Russian Kupol plant in Izhevsk, which produces Tor air defence systems, radar systems and Harpia drones, has been struck by modernised Ukrainian Liutyi kamikaze drones. Source: Oboronka, a defence industry project by Mezha.

A Ukrainian drone attack at an industrial plant in central Russia has killed three people and injured 35 others, a Russian regional governor has said.