You know, everything you tell us will be used against you,” the interviewer on Russian TV warns Timur Shagivaleev, the man behind one of the country’s biggest drone factories.

The long-range Russian drones come in swarms each night, buzzing over Ukraine by the hundreds, terrorizing the population and attacking targets from the industrial east to areas near its western border with Poland.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday toured a factory producing interceptor drones, increasingly seen as a solution to protecting Ukrainian cities from Russian air attacks, and said a goal had been set to make up to 1,

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Russian drone and missile strikes hit the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Kharkiv overnight into Thursday, damaging historical landmarks and residential infrastructure.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has tasked officials with preparing a contract for the sale of Ukrainian drones to the United States worth between US$10 and US$30 billion. Source: Zelenskyy during a meeting with journalists on 24 July,

Ukrainian soldiers from the Third Assault Brigade are actively eliminating Russian forces in the Kharkiv region using drones, according to the brigade. "FPV drones of the Third Assault Brigade continue to hunt Russian forces in the tree lines and fields of the Kharkiv region,