On the night of Friday, January 31, the Russian army launched 102 kamikaze drones at Ukraine. Ukrainian air defense forces operated in 12 regions of the country, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A new drone bomber may have joined Ukraine’s escalating assault on Russia’s oil industry. On Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, drones operated by the Ukrainian 14th Separate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment struck a pumping station on the Druzhba pipeline along the Russian-Belarusian border in Bryansk Oblast.

Drone strikes were reported across multiple Russian regions, including Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Tver, and Bryansk, igniting fires and triggering air defence responses. While there were no reported casualties, an oil refinery in the city of Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod, suffered significant damage.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged large drone attacks on Sunday night into Monday, with alleged Ukrainian UAVs forcing flight restrictions at three Russian airports.

Kyiv says it struck a Russian oil refinery and a microchip factory in attack which Moscow says contained 120 drones

Russia says it shot down more than 120 drones overnight, in what would be one of the largest attacks of the war.

A Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday.

Russia’s Defense Ministry reported it had shot down 104 drones overnight. According to the ministry’s statement, Russian air defenses intercepted: ・47 drones over Kursk Oblast, ・27 drones over Bryansk Oblast,